I am aware of Novell Border Manager, but when he said just Novell, I am going
eh? my first thought was netware, although I am very fimalar with Novell Border
Manager.
I guess the person in question should have said Novell Border Manager and not
just Novell.
Oh well he is still looking at ip-masquerading anyways, as my answer gave.
Bye all.. back to work for me :(
Quoting DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > When has Novell had anything associated with Network Address
> Translation, NAT
> > is basically the masquerading of 192.168 etc ip's over a link to the
> internet
> > that uses a typical internet addressed ip, thus allowing your network
> behind
> > the link to see and use the net, while still only having 1 internet
> ip.
>
> Since about version, oh 4.1
>
> It's called "Border Manager" - and it's a far better, and _much_ faster,
> proxy cache and NAT box than any of the other "mainstream" products like
> Firewall 1 {for NAT} and M$'s Proxy Server, or even Netscape's proxy
> server.
>
> NAT is _NOT_ Masquerading. The two are quite different.
>
> Masquerading is taking requests from an internal address, massaging them
> to add a specific port number into the header, then sending them out as
> if
> they came from the "legal" IP address. Masquerading is suitable if you
> have only one "legal" IP address to go through.
>
> NAT is network address TRANSLATION - in other words, the internal
> address
> is taken and "converted" to a completely different network address. NAT
> is
> much more suitable for situations where you have pools of "legal"
> address,
> but many more machines than addresses. Each machine is given a
> "translated" Ip address for the duration of its current session.
>
> My explaination may not be the clearest, but the two processes are
> completely different in methodology, even if the end result is the same.
>
> > What you should be looking at is ip-masquerading information on
> > www.linux.org.au/LDP/
>
> No. He asked about NAT, not about Masquerading.
>
> And the answer to his question is, I believe, that true NAT is being
> incorporated into the 2.4 kernels.
>
> DaZZa
>
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