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From: gypsy <gypsy@iswest.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 02:16:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [LARTC] IPRoute2 vs Iptables
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"Wennie V. Lagmay" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As I read into the forum, NATting (SNAT) is expensive, using iptables to
> translate IP sucks the performance of the system. I just want to know if
> IProute2 can handle NATting and if it handels NATting can it performed
> faster than iptables?
> 
> thanks,
> 
>  Wennie

No, ip does not "do" NAT, only iptables does.  But it is not THAT much
of a performance hit; I'll bet you can't measure its effect.
--
gypsy
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