Re: Iptables: not recommended by Debian?

[Marcio Rosa da Silva <mrs@myrealbox.com>]

On Sáb, Fev 22, 2003 at 05:47:14 -0800, calyth wrote:
> All,
> I was downloading iptables, and was going to set it up on a box so that 
> it would be my router...
> After downloading the iptables package, it says that iptables was not 
> recommended by Debian. Given the server was using the stable distro.
> Is there any reason why it should do so?
> Also any good tutorials for setting up NAT / Masquerading using 
> iptables? I'm reading one of the tutorials from netfilter.org and it's 
> taking way too long for me to read.....

Another tutorial is at: 

http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/

I hope it helps!

Marcio