Argh! (Adelphia, E-mail, iptables, etc.)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, at 5:27pm, tom at buskey.name wrote:
>>> I would personally use ssh to do that kind of redirection
>>> On machine a ssh -g -L 25:3.4.5.6:otherport 3.4.5.6
>>
>> It seems to me that would add needless overhead.  You're already talking
>> about a public data stream (SMTP), so why bother spending the CPU cycles
>> to encrypt it for the last few steps?
>
> If you don't care about encryption, use netcat.

  Better yet, use IPTables (as was originally suggested), which is done
entirely in the kernel, and thus will have considerably less overhead.

  :-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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