[LUAU] VPN

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Tue Jun 1 21:39:39 PDT 2004


On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:58:33PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote:
> But I was just wondering if port translation is the same as
> port redirection. Is it safe to say that the nat daemon does
> port translation as well as address.

Maybe. I tried natd 5 years ago. It did what I needed it to do at
the time, but I quickly moved to ipf as soon as I had the chance.
If you need help with it, contact me offlist.

> If so then NAT = NAPT. Wonder why lots of ppl use it in
> different context.

NAPT? My googling mentions NAPT as a means to translate IPV4 to IPV6.

I generally see NAT and masquerading/overloading/PAT referred to
collectively as NAT.

-Vince



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