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Re: Firewall is needed
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:
> I just finished building a firewall + masquarading on a linux box...
>
> http://www.wwonline.com/~achau/ipmasq/ will help you know more about it.
> for many reasons I liked the masquerading idea even though I have an
> entire Class C at my disposal.
But masquerading is slow, isn't it? It places a much higher load on the
box running it, than regular routing. The kernel has to edit the packets
that it masquerades, and to create and close sockets on the way.
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