VanLUG Email Archive
> 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.
ipfilter is avil. for linux btw. I don't know why linux doesn't
use it instead of ipfw or ipchains. Maybe it's liscensing issues?
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