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Building a router with iptables

Building a router with iptables - Linux Tutorial

From the course: LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (202-450) Cert Prep

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Building a router with iptables

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- Did you know that most routers are just a computer? Stick around, we'll show you how to turn your Linux machine into a router. - [Announcer] You're watching ITProTV. (relaxed music) - Welcome back. We're here with more LPIC-2. And today is all about iptables. Don, can you give us an overview of what we'll be talking about? - Sure, you know, iptables is a integral part of most Linux distros that allows for us to do a lot of crazy things, like firewalls and routers and filtering, proxy, just really all sorts of amazing stuff. But in this episode we're going to focus on the routing piece. So we'll learn about what's involved with configuring our Linux server to become a router, and we'll go through that configuration process with iptables. And by the end of the episode, we'll have built a Linux router. - Now, why would we use iptables as opposed to a dedicated router? - Alright, so you can go really to any commercial store like Best Buy and buy a router right now and be up and running…

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