Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:26:32 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: "Royyana M. Ijtihadie" <roy@its-sby.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd and ipmasq Message-ID: <36F43CB8.C7EB73DD@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990320172028.20465A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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Bill Fumerola wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Royyana M. Ijtihadie wrote:
>
> > what's the difference between NATD dan ipmasquerading on LInux ?
> > i thought that was the same.. is that true ?
>
> NAT is the official name that the IETF uses to refer to the concept of
> network address translation. FreeBSD and everyone else refers to it as
> NAT, while natd is the daemon that performs the translation in FreeBSD.
>
> IP Masquerading is some silly term that the Linux people came up with to
> be different. Though I believe it works the same way as the rest of the
> free world's implementation.
The phrase "IP masquerading" is often used to describe stealing
another's IP address for nefarious purposes. This should give you
a good strong clue as to the differences between FreeBSD and Linux.
;^)
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