SNAT or MASQ or both?

[Rob Sterenborg]

netfilter-bounces at lists.netfilter.org scribbled on Thursday, 27 April
2006 22:51:

> I'm creating a gateway that has dynamic addresses for most of the
> internal machines.  I'm using masquerading successfully but my
> question is this...i have some machines for which I want to use static
> internal addresses...do i need to setup an snat rule for these
> machines or is masquerading adequate?  A brief sentence in a how-to
> made me think maybe masquerading wasn't the right way to go for these
> machines...but i'm not sure. 

That's about *external* dynamic IP adresses, not internal.
User SNAT is you have a static external IP (and are not using a ppp
adapter for your internet connection, if I remember correctly).


Gr,
Rob