On Tuesday 02 July 2002 22:58, Antony Stone wrote: > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 9:51 pm, Ben wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Jan Humme wrote: > > > No, I just wanted to point out that masquerading provides an easy way > > > to get the desired results. > > > > It does, true, but the howto recommends not using MASQ for static IPs. If > > I had just done what told me what to do instead of worrying about > > problems that didn't exist, I wouldn't have had to post this question to > > begin with. :) > > Masquerading will do almost all you want for machines on an internal > network making contact with the Internet (ie outbound-initiated traffic), > but you will always need specific DNAT rules if you are running a server on > the internal network (ie Internet-initiated traffic).
Of course, you are absolutely right; my reply was too quick ! Jan Humme.
