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From: Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl>
Subject: Re: NAT PREROUTING vs. filter FORWARD
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:46:31 +0200
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Mike wrote:

> Martijn,
> The sciprt idea sounds quite clever and efficient!
> I would be very interested to see your method by script, if it is not
> a security risk, etc.
> Thank you very much for your response and idea.


It is pretty efficient. I write my firewall rules in perl. The loader 
executes this script and pipes the output into iptables-restore. It is 
not in a stage that I want to release it to the world yet, however.

M4