On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 10:55:23AM -0700, Curt Sampson wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Ted Powell wrote: > > > I had always thought--perhaps mistakenly--that masquerading was a > > special case of NAT, where all the source addresses of outgoing packets > > were set specifically to the address of the host doing the deed. > > > > Am I incorrect in thinking that NAT can do arbitrary translations? > > NAT indeed can: with ipfilter in NetBSD, for example, you can > translate to a range of addresses: > > map ppp0 10.0.0.0/8 -> 209.123.45.0/24 > > However, I've never heard the term `masquerading' to refer to doing > a translation to only one address. In fact I've never seen the term > `masquerading' at all outside of the Linux community. I'm open to > counter-examples, however.
Perhaps no-one previously perceived a need for a single word to refer to
this special case. Do other people refer to this case as "restricted
NAT", "one source address NAT", "NAT-1", or what?
If implementation of this special case of NAT has only occurred within
the Linux community, then it's not surprising that a word to refer to it
only exists there. If it has occurred elsewhere, then what word or
phrase is used to refer to it in a way that would not be confused with
fully-implemented NAT?
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