Hi,

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:23:38 -0500
Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Setting up NAT works using a sysctl (or the procfs). Restricting the
> > NAT works using iptables.
> 
> I don't think that's quite right.  Correct me if i'm wrong (please) but
> this should read, 
> 
>       "Setting up forwarding works using a sysctl... and configuring
>       and restricting the NAT works using iptables"
> 
> Network Address Translation is taken care of by iptables itself, not
> just firewalled that way.  

Thanks, I missed that, of course you're right! NAT would be
masquerading, and that's in fact netfilter/iptables' job. I was
probably just thinking about routing/forwarding in general...

-hwh
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