Re: A good NAT for Linux

[David Lang <dlang () diginsite com>]

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the built-in masquerading will do a many-one NAT which will allow your
workstations to access the outside world, if you need to allow outside
connections in it gets quite a bit tricker to do and there are several
third-party packages and work arounds you can do.

David Lang


On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Steven Osman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:06:22 -0500
> From: Steven Osman <sosman () terratron com>
> To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Cc: Steven Osman <sosman () terratron com>
> Subject: A good NAT for Linux
>
> 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 :)

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