[4092] in linux-net channel archive
IP Address Translation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David C Niemi/Administrator/DCLinu)
Sun Aug 18 18:34:30 1996
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 17:11:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: David C Niemi/Administrator/DCLinux/LUGMAN/WAUUG <niemi@wauug.erols.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608181556.QAA17205@snowcrash.cymru.net>
I have several people now interested in doing 1-1 address translation at a
router, including some large sites. Can Linux do this now? I have heard
some Cisco routers do it.
Network Address Translation differs from masquerading and proxying in that
each host has a unique IP address on the "outside" network, but may be
using a different address inside. It would be sufficient to translate any
addresses in a large block to a different block of addresses in a 1-1
manner, though for migration purposes there may be a mix of addresses in
the "inside" and "outside" blocks on a temporary basis.
This sounds easy in general but may fail for things like talk which embed
IP addresses inside the data.
David
Niemi@linux.wauug.org 703-810-5538 Reston, Virginia, USA
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