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Re: ip masquerade : which one?



On Monday 16 April 2001 18:07, D-Man wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:38:30AM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote:

> This doesn't quite answer my question, but it might be heading in the
> right direction.  I want to know the difference between ipchains and
> ipmasq.  Would I be correct if I said :
>     Firewalling and Masquerading are 2 different things, handled by 2
>     different apps, and I want both ipchains and ipmasq?

ipchains is the utility that ipmasq (a set of firewalling scripts) uses; 
ipmasq is a front end of sorts for ipchains, it's a debian specific tool.

ipmasq is a package.  ipchains is a command.


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Tim Kelley
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