On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 16:10 +0100, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
I'm not sure that firewalld is the right tool to do NAT.
It's
something more like personal/desktop packet filter configuration tool
right now. Maybe in next 2 or 5 years it evolves but looking at
NetworkManager history and it's support for more advanced features
like bridging, gives no such optimistic thoughts. Firewalld is awesome
tool for opening/closing ports when in home, office or airport (or in
grocery store). Other fancy features like NAT are better done by hand
with iptables command. BTW why you need NAT on something else than
router? Fedora is not the best router distro one can find.
Firewalld offers it as a tool, so I would like to investigate to
determine if it is the best solution to the job. It would be good to
have a comparison against raw iptables or pf for example.
Also, there is nothing wrong with fedora as a router - It's a little bit
to setup, but works well. It means that I can have OS consistency inside
my household. (aka, Yes, I do have a fedora router)
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Sincerely,
William Brown
pgp.mit.edu
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