I you have one machine, that acts as a router for the rest of the machines in the local network and if those machines only have private ipadresses like 192.168.1.10 then yes you need nat nat NAT what NAT does is to map local IP adresses and sockets to outgoing ip adresses and sockets., for example:
<----------------- NAT Table ------------> box 2 inside ppp0 remote machines 192.168.1.10:4000 --> 212.123.56.1:4000 www.gentoo.org When the data returns from www.gentoo.org the router 212.123.56 looks up the nat table and sends the data to box2. So to answer your question yes you need NAT unless you have public ips on those machines inside your network ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Truelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:22 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Do I need NAT? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
