[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] Help!

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You might want to look into IPtables.  It is rather scary in it's
abilities.
	Nick

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > Well what the Linux dudes call "IP Masquerading" is really generally
> > called Network Address Translation, or NAT by the rest of the world.
> 
> I recently found a reason to not call what linux does NAT.  NAT implies
> that you can translate both ways.  Linux (from the documentation I've
> found) only seems to do the private network -> 1 outside address thing.
> Supposedly there are some kernel patches to allow more flexible
> mappings, but it doesn't do it out of the box.  Now, I don't know if
> the iptables stuff in 2.4 has fixed that, but it is true for 2.2.x
> 
> I was fairly disappointed by that, as I like Linux (although I liked
> OpenBSD better for firewalls before this discovery).
> 
> --Kurt
> 
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