From owner-freebsd-net Sat Mar 20 16:29:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE34014F8A for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:29:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27040; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:26:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36F43CB8.C7EB73DD@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:26:32 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Royyana M. Ijtihadie" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd and ipmasq References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Royyana M. Ijtihadie wrote: > > > what's the difference between NATD dan ipmasquerading on LInux ? > > i thought that was the same.. is that true ? > > NAT is the official name that the IETF uses to refer to the concept of > network address translation. FreeBSD and everyone else refers to it as > NAT, while natd is the daemon that performs the translation in FreeBSD. > > IP Masquerading is some silly term that the Linux people came up with to > be different. Though I believe it works the same way as the rest of the > free world's implementation. The phrase "IP masquerading" is often used to describe stealing another's IP address for nefarious purposes. This should give you a good strong clue as to the differences between FreeBSD and Linux. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message