Re: NAT - Network Address Translation

From: Ian Gregory (I.H.Gregory@herts.ac.uk)
Date: 06/13/02 

From: I.H.Gregory@herts.ac.uk (Ian Gregory)
Date: 13 Jun 2002 11:17:59 GMT

In article <JJLN8.9$O26.179@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net>, Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <ae7tj2$2pl$1@sapa.inka.de>,
>Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-news2002-06@lina.inka.de> wrote:
>>Port forwarding is not done in the routing table but with an daemon or a
>>special kernel setting. in linux it is done with ipchains or netfilter.
>
>What are you talking about? Most NAT routers *do* support port forwarding.

What are you talking about? That *is* what he said. "Port forwarding"
is done by the NAT software (implemented as a kernel module). Routing
is done by the standard kernel. 

-- 
Ian Gregory
Systems and Applications Manager
Learning and Information Services
University of Hertfordshire

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