VanLUG Email Archive
> 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.
Of course it's a good idea. If Linux called it NAT, then people might
be led to believing that it's the same crappy NAT that you get from
some proprietary vendor.
Will, e.g., Cisco provide you with special ``helper modules'' to support
network address translation for a particular application whose protocol isn't
``well behaved''? Mapping multiple internal addresses to one external
address is only half the work.
We could say that Masquerading is a product name for Linux's NAT plus
helper modules.