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Re: ADSL and Linux router?

R Garth Wood
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:17:11 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, 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.

Linux (at least unpatched kernels) don't do full full NAT so it's
maybe a good thing that there's a distinction.

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