masq modules provide the masquerading feature, thats all
no caching or other features etc..
Bye
Kaushik
From: Indraneel Majumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, August 11, 2000 9:23 PM
>> 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.)
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