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Re: ADSL and Linux router?

Curt Sampson
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:34:15 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Ted Powell wrote:

> 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?

Nope. Everyone else uses NAT as a general term to cover all sorts
of address translation. For example, the Ascend P50 does NAT for
only one address, and yet they still call it NAT. They called it
NAT before they implemented fixed pass-through translations for
incoming connections, as well.

In other words, `NAT' is a term like `routing'; you don't find
people saying `this device is a foo, not a router, because it
doesn't handle ToS routing.'

> 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?

`NAT that translates through only one address.' `Routing without
ToS routing.'

cjs

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