NATing on a single interface?

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Fri Oct 27 16:40:11 CEST 2006


Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Well, I've read the chapter on TCP/IP, now I'm just skimming through the 
> stuff on DNAT and Masquerading. Problem with DNAT is that it seems to be 
> more of a port-forwarding system rather than allowing more than one 
> machine to access the Internet from one public IP.

Well, you started out saying that your router's limitation of "a
maximum of 16 firewall port-forward rules" was a problem, so I
jumped to the conclusion that you were trying to do port forwarding.

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Bob Nichols         Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.




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