iptables questions

[Tyler Littlefield]

>
> Generally, if I don't understand how something works, there is a very
> good chance that searching the web will give me at least one, if not
> more, good explanations.
>
> In short, masquerading does what your router does now. If you're still
> laboring under the misconception that your ISP is assigning the
> 10.x.x.x addresses to your machine, the sooner you accept what I've
> told you twice before, that your modem or router is actually doing
> that, the easier it will be for you to understand
> masquerading.
    Um... I called the ISP, and had to go up to the manager, because no one
else woudl tell me what was going on. It turned out that it **wasn't** the
modem/router, but I had a private IP. I ended up paying $5 extra a month for
a public.
 Masquerading will simply allow you to assign an internal ip
> to each of the machines on your LAN, and make any internet traffic
> from those machines look as if it's coming from your single public IP,
> assigned to you by your ISP. Like I've said, this is exactly what your
> modem or router does currently.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:40:41AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I don't understand how the maskerading works.
> > I currently have a router, that is connected to the modem.
> > Then, I have another 3 computers behind the router, one of which is the
> > linux. What I want to do is dmz linux so that it acts as a firewall.
> > Thanks,
> > ~~TheCreator~~
> > website:
> > http://tysplace.shaned.net
> > msn:
> > compgeek134 at hotmail.com
> > aim:
> > st8amnd2005
> > skype:
> > st8amnd127
> > moo coder/wizard and administrator
> >
>
>
>
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~~TheCreator~~
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http://tysplace.shaned.net
msn:
compgeek134 at hotmail.com
aim:
st8amnd2005
skype:
st8amnd127
moo coder/wizard and administrator

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: iptables questions


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> Generally, if I don't understand how something works, there is a very
> good chance that searching the web will give me at least one, if not
> more, good explanations.
>
> In short, masquerading does what your router does now. If you're still
> laboring under the misconception that your ISP is assigning the
> 10.x.x.x addresses to your machine, the sooner you accept what I've
> told you twice before, that your modem or router is actually doing
> that, the easier it will be for you to understand
> masquerading. Masquerading will simply allow you to assign an internal ip
> to each of the machines on your LAN, and make any internet traffic
> from those machines look as if it's coming from your single public IP,
> assigned to you by your ISP. Like I've said, this is exactly what your
> modem or router does currently.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:40:41AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I don't understand how the maskerading works.
> > I currently have a router, that is connected to the modem.
> > Then, I have another 3 computers behind the router, one of which is the
> > linux. What I want to do is dmz linux so that it acts as a firewall.
> > Thanks,
> > ~~TheCreator~~
> > website:
> > http://tysplace.shaned.net
> > msn:
> > compgeek134 at hotmail.com
> > aim:
> > st8amnd2005
> > skype:
> > st8amnd127
> > moo coder/wizard and administrator
> >
>
>
>
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