On Sun, 14 May 2000, Michael C. Wu wrote:
> E. Please use the academic term for IP masquerading.
> Linux developers decided out of nowhere that they would
> call Network Address Translation (commonly called NAT)
> "IP masquerading." Should you refer to textbooks and
> other books, you would find that the term NAT is the general
> concensus in the true UNIX world.
This is a Linux mailing list. On Linux, it is called IP Masquerading.
The term masquerading has always been associated rewriting internal mail
going outside the firewall by changing the headers to remove the local
network's names. The term IP Masquerading follows this suit exactly,
since each internal machine is pretending to be the gateway machine. NAT
was a term used for a machine that took an internal machine's private
address and translated it to a real address, using a distinct address for
each machine, requiring an entire subnet for this to work.
If you do not use the correct terminology for the right setting, no one
will no what you are talking about anyways. Should we call packages in
Debian ports, or ports in FreeBSD Package Management? You can not stop
everyone from using their own terminology, especially when things differ
enough to warrant a new name.
Adam
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