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From: Jan Humme <jan.humme@xs4all.nl>
To: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>, Ben <bench@silentmedia.com>
Cc: NetFilter <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Subject: Re: simple nat question
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:08:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02070223080905.03048@Lms> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020702205858.OTEW2755.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@there>

On Tuesday 02 July 2002 22:58, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 July 2002 9:51 pm, Ben wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Jan Humme wrote:
> > > No, I just wanted to point out that masquerading provides an easy way
> > > to get the desired results.
> >
> > It does, true, but the howto recommends not using MASQ for static IPs. If
> > I had just done what told me what to do instead of worrying about
> > problems that didn't exist, I wouldn't have had to post this question to
> > begin with. :)
>
> Masquerading will do almost all you want for machines on an internal
> network making contact with the Internet (ie outbound-initiated traffic),
> but you will always need specific DNAT rules if you are running a server on
> the internal network (ie Internet-initiated traffic).

Of course, you are absolutely right; my reply was too quick !

Jan Humme.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-02 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-02 19:34 simple nat question Ben
2002-07-02 19:55 ` Antony Stone
2002-07-02 20:13   ` Jan Humme
2002-07-02 20:18     ` Antony Stone
2002-07-02 20:47       ` Jan Humme
2002-07-02 20:51         ` Ben
2002-07-02 20:58           ` Antony Stone
2002-07-02 21:08             ` Jan Humme [this message]
2002-07-02 20:53         ` Antony Stone
2002-07-02 20:37   ` Ben
2002-07-02 20:18 ` Aldo S. Lagana
2002-07-03  7:00 ` Raymond Leach

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