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Re: ADSL and Linux router?

Jay Thorne
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 10:27:15 -0700

Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> > What you have to do is set up IP masquerading....
>
> Oh, just FYI, it seems that *everybody* in the world, except for
> Linux users, calls this Network Address Translation (NAT). I have
> no idea why Linux users have to be different in this regard.
>
The guy who wrote the original implementation and userland tool
called it masquerading. NAT is more accurate. The kernel doc
and the userland tools are slowly incorporating the nomenclature.

I would say that the _main_ reason is laziness, since so much
of the doc out there for linux calls it masquerading. Changing
it all is a drag.

At least the other firewall tools have accurate names....

-- 
Jay Thorne  



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