-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-04-09 at 00:30 +0930, Rodney Baker wrote: ...
Isn't just NAT good enough for what I want to do? Listen to mp3's and avi's I have on my laptop? If no one can connect to me from the outside then I'm OK internally on the lan no?
You only need NAT if you want to connect to a box on your lan from outside the firewall (i.e. elsewhere on the internet). If you have no need to accept incoming connections from outside, turn it all OFF.
I thought NAT was used the other way round, to connect one or more machines on the local net (many IPs) to the internet (one outgoing IP). Ie, it is what allows several machines with different local IPs to browse internet, sharing the only one internet address they have. :-? Or what I describe has a different name? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkndNcsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W6YQCeJZQ1W9M8peBdmCqeeLP0s7rv wgcAn2frPY5UMuenVInopKUMct3IuqfD =Ad/M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org