Re: A good NAT for Linux

["Michael T. Shinn" <mike () shinn net>]

Steven Osman wrote:
> Anyone know of a good NAT server and proxy server (either together or as
> separate packages) for Linux?
>
> Basically what I'm trying to achieve is this :
>
> Taking one single IP address (say, from a dialup or a DSL connection) which
> may or may not be static, and fanning it out to a number of workstations
> (like 6 or so), and providing them as much freedom as possible to run
> different applications.  I was hoping that between a www and ftp proxy, and
> a socks proxy, I'd have most applications covered, and then I'd use NAT for
> any off-the-wall applications that may be running.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Steven
> p.s. If it's free, that's better of course :)

Have you considered just using the masquerading support in the kernel? 
A good primer on that is available at:

http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html

If you ever want to mess with the cipe/VPN stuff under linux you can
read up on that at:

http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cipe+Masq.html

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