Sometimes it's best to consider some challenges to be video games.  For the last week I've been looking through iptables and iproute2 while I put together my home firewall.  It wasn't so much the firewall that I needed but rather a firewall, NAT, SNAT/DNAT for multiple machines, and all of my data in an easy to reach place.  While there are multiple ways to do this (bridge comes to mind) it seemed like it was about time that I try to make a cheap and complex solution out of it…for the challenge!  More details later if I happen to feel like it but for those of you that know what iptables and iproute2 are you should be fairly content.