From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 01:20:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071006012023.505a792a.hilse@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071005172338.5bd7b73b@pascal.spore.ath.cx>
Hi,
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:23:38 -0500
Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx> wrote:
> > Setting up NAT works using a sysctl (or the procfs). Restricting the
> > NAT works using iptables.
>
> I don't think that's quite right. Correct me if i'm wrong (please) but
> this should read,
>
> "Setting up forwarding works using a sysctl... and configuring
> and restricting the NAT works using iptables"
>
> Network Address Translation is taken care of by iptables itself, not
> just firewalled that way.
Thanks, I missed that, of course you're right! NAT would be
masquerading, and that's in fact netfilter/iptables' job. I was
probably just thinking about routing/forwarding in general...
-hwh
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-05 15:42 [gentoo-user] loopback into gentoo iptables Walter Willis
2007-10-05 16:00 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-10-05 22:23 ` Dan Farrell
2007-10-05 23:20 ` Hans-Werner Hilse [this message]
2007-10-14 22:08 ` Mick
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