Steve Jardine wrote:
NAT is short for Network Address Translation. Currently it *only* works with 2.3 kernels. So the stock kernel for Suse will not work.
Where did you hear that it will be in the 2.4 kernel?
Not sure if this has been aswered yet: NAT is the new paradigm for IP Masquerading in the latest kernel (2.3.34>).
Are you saying that NAT and IP Masquerading are one in the same? From my understanding they are anything but the same. I know that IP Masquerading is designed where you have many computers going thought one box that is doing the IP Masquerading. The the Masquerading box makes everyone else look like itself to the computers on the internet.
From my understanding, NAT works like this: For every computer you want to have on the Internet at one time, you have to have a valid Internet IP address. Here where I work, we use to have about 30 valid Internet IP's and about 40 employees. As soon 30 folks where on the web, eveyone else was unable to access the web. The NAT server translates our internal 10.x.x.x to one of the thirty valid Internet address. This is very different from IP Masquerading.
I have heard the consept of IP Masquerading, many boxes going through one IP, refered to as NAT+ with Netgear ISDN/Modem routers, and PAT from a Cisco PIX firewall. I believe they all refer the the same thing. If someone knows. Sam -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/