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Originally Published: Thursday, 11 May 2000 | Author: Joseph Kordish |
Published to: news_learn_firststep/Firststep News | Page: 1/1 - [Printable] |
LinuxFocus: Setting up IP-Masquerading
Basically IP-Masquerading translates internal IP addresses into external IP addresses. This is called network address translation and Linux does this by using something called port-numbers. From the outside world, all connections will seem to be originating from your Linux box.
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