On Wed, 09 Jul 1997 18:22:35 PDT "Eliezer Figueroa" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 1. What is IP Masquerading? It's having a machine doing forwarding while pretending all the connections it forwards comes from itself. It serves hinding subnets or machines from the ouside (for example because you have a subnet which has no officially allocated IP addresses and your masquerading host has one). > 2. What is IP forwading? It's a machine that can forward automatically packets between two interfaces. A machine doing IP fw between two interfaces is sometimes called a gateway. Which 3 or more, it's called a router. > 3. What is faster for a internet router IP Masquerading or a Proxy > Server? IP masq is faster I believe. It's also completely transparent. Ip masq works with all TCP services (including the most exotic ones). With the firewalling capabilities, one can also deny forwarding some requests, etc... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .