From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 11 14:51:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.pa.home.com [24.12.106.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60A237BADF for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:51:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peterschwenk@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.40.47.120]) by mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000311225116.BLN6019.mail.rdc2.pa.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:51:16 -0800 Message-ID: <38CACDE3.41C25EC6@home.com> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:51:15 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: Schwenk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Sam Carleton , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ipfw is not working References: <38C9D32F.E8F2254A@miltonstreet.com> <20000311123542.B23514@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <38CA9F0F.8A8F89F5@miltonstreet.com> <20000311172441.B24340@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess I'll chime in... "IP Masquerading" is a Linux-ism for NAT. If you only used Linux, you would never know the term NAT. "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > No. NAT only needs one registered IP address on the external > interface. If it required a one-to-one mapping, it'd be rather > useless. See the natd(8) manpage. Also see RFC 1631 and other RFCs > related to NAT if interested. (BTW, there are no RFCs about "IP > masquerading." No idea if there are differences.) -- - Peter Schwenk - peterschwenk@home.com - - Give FreeBSD a try! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message