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From: Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: NATing on a single interface?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:40:11 -0500
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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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