Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT?

2004-01-01 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:44:14 +0100 "SN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So to answer your question yes you need NAT unless you have public ips > on those machines inside your network > Thanks. That is what I thought, but the info that I was able to locate seemed to be implying that iptables rules co

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT?

2004-01-01 Thread SN
e data to box2. So to answer your question yes you need NAT unless you have public ips on those machines inside your network - Original Message - From: "Ian Truelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 31,

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT?

2003-12-31 Thread Mickey Mullin
Ian Truelsen wrote: I have been trying to figure out whether NAT adds any additional functionality that I could not get with comprehensive iptables rules. In other words, if I were to specifically forward those ports that I needed from the firewall to the correct internal machines and then do the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT?

2003-12-31 Thread Elton Algera
You need NAT if you have more machines you want to connect to the internet than PUBLIC ip adresses. If you have a home config, you probably only have one address. If you want to connect more than one machine to the internet simultaneously you need to do NAT. If you don't, traffic coming from m

[gentoo-user] Do I need NAT?

2003-12-31 Thread Ian Truelsen
I have been trying to figure this out with google, but the answer is still a little less than clear, so I thought I would bother you good folks. I have been trying to figure out whether NAT adds any additional functionality that I could not get with comprehensive iptables rules. In other words, if