On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, SEN wrote:
> From: Indraneel Majumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:57 AM
>
> >What is a "proxy server" supposed to do? And what is a
> >"masquerading machine" supposed to do?
>
> A proxy server is supposed tomask the addresses of a private
> Lan while connecting to an external network, to which it is the
> sole link. Any request from a client(s) is sent via the proxy to the
> external network, which masks the clients ip address in the lan.
> i.e it masquerades for every client in the network in a way.
> On receiving replys for the requests from the server, it resolves
> back the reply's to the client who sent it.
Then what does a masquerade do that a proxy doesn't? (MASQ modules are
supposed to do exactly this.)
\Indraneel
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