iptoip

iptoip is a program to maintain an ipvsadm table coherent. It is specially useful when using an intermittent internet connection or when your ISP breaks conections to reaffect IP addresses (like in France) It use the ipvsadm tool to build and update a forwarding table.

The program is written in perl. It uses a configuration file to know which interface to use, which port to forward, and to which box in the internal network. For example your external ip is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and you forward the http default port (80) to the computer zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz in your internal network. Everytime you've got a new public ip you should launch iptoip to update your ipvsadm table with your new ip yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:80 to zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz:80

The name iptoip have no particuliar history, it was found when I was asked by sourceforge to find a name for my project, before it was : toto, test, titi, test1... But anyway, I think iptoip expresses well the idea to transfer something from one ip to another ip...but you know...hey..."what's in my mind" (c) Pixies.

Today :
• external XML configuration file
• only one file for several configurations
• check if IP is really public
• able to use syslog to log in /var/log/messages
• no-check mode
• verbose mode
...tomorrow...
• alternate syslog file
• graphical frontend one day

12.12.2001

• v0.3.0 - Unstable:
• add udp/tcp support ( Thx Florin Grad )
• change verbose mode
  * now an update line is dropped for every forward we add
  * should be a lot clearer than before with some cosmetic changes
  * remove redundant displaying
  
• fix usage of alternate config file
• update man/doc pages

11.11.2001

• v0.2.0 - Stable release:
• add two manpages
• remove awful text in syslog :)
• CVS is up

09.09.2001

• v0.1.7 - Major fixes:
• fix multiple conf bug ( pointed by Philippe Lafoucriere )
• fix inline --file option ( use --file ./xxxx )

04.07.2001

• v0.1.6
• usage of total tag in iptoip.xml is now deprecated
• detects how much conf we have
• checks if conf tags are opened and closed

...old news...

• iptoip-20011212.tar.gz - 12.12.2001
• iptoip-20011212.tar.bz2 - 12.12.2001
• iptoip-0.3.0-0.1mdk.i586.rpm - 12.12.2001
• iptoip-0.3.0-0.1mdk.src.rpm - 12.12.2001

• iptoip-0.2.0.tar.gz - 11.11.2001
• iptoip-0.2.0.tar.bz2 - 11.11.2001
• iptoip-0.2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm - 11.11.2001
• iptoip-0.2.0-1mdk.src.rpm - 11.11.2001

• iptoip-0.1.7.tar.gz - 09.09.2001
• iptoip-0.1.7.tar.bz2 - 09.09.2001
• iptoip-0.1.7-1mdk.i586.rpm - 09.09.2001
• iptoip-0.1.7-1mdk.src.rpm - 09.09.2001

• iptoip-0.1.6.tar.gz - 04.07.2001
• iptoip-0.1.6.tar.bz2 - 04.07.2001
• iptoip-0.1.6-1mdk.i586.rpm - 04.07.2001
• iptoip-0.1.6-1mdk.src.rpm - 04.07.2001

...even older...

to use iptoip you need :

• perl
• ipvsadm
• XML-Simple

Here you can browse CVS via a viewcvs interface on Sourceforge.