There have been several NAT packages available for Windows for several years. Before I totally dumped Windows on my main system, I ran NAT32 on Windows and IP Masq on Linux, so that my daughter could access the Internet from her system. Historically, M$ has added features to Windows that had been offered as add ons by other vendors. Remember that Windows3.1 did not include IP networking, but you could get commercial versions of Winsock. We must remember to keep Linux (and Unixes) better than Windows in all areas. Derek Fountain wrote:
What actually caused my original post was when I saw that Windows 98 (I think, maybe NT or W2K) does what we call IP masquerading. It seems that Microsoft is catching up with the system level power of Linux and slowly erradicating our advantages. This worries me.
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Jerry Feldman