Re: A good NAT for Linux

["Steven Osman" <sosman () terratron com>]

Exactly when was NAT added to linux?  This is what happens to a linux user
if he blinks!

I suppose I'd heard of the IP Masquerading, but never looked into it to
realize that it was address translation that they were referring to.

Thanks everyone for the reply, and, for anyone's information, I found a
pretty good howto with people's help, the "Dial-On-Demand" mini-howto.  It
covers on-demand dialup, as well as IP masquerading and more.

Steven

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Kyle <mikek () lanl gov>
To: Steven Osman <sosman () terratron com>
Cc: <firewall-wizards () nfr net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: A good NAT for Linux


> Just build the linux kernel with nat support.
> Check the mini-howto on IP-Masquerade.
>
> Mike.
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, 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 :)