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Re: ADSL and Linux router?

Curt Sampson
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:54:30 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Vincent Janelle wrote:

> I was talking about Linux curt, not everything.

Well, I was talking about everything. (That was the whole point of
my post that started this debate: Linux uses one term, the rest of
the world uses another and doesn't--ever--use the Linux term.) I
think it's silly for the Linux community to make up its own terms
rather than use the common ones that everyone else uses. If you
think it's good to do that, I doubt I can sway you.

> ...and only for TCP/IP.
> NAT is a generic term to mean taking any protocol and exchanging the data
> over to another protocol.

No, it is not. That's protocol translation, not NAT. I have *never*
seen (in the Linux community or elsewhere) anyone use the term NAT
for protocol translation. Feel free to provide some examples if
you think it is used that way.

I think I documented pretty well what NAT means in the real world.
If you chose to be different, that's your right, I suppose.

cjs

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