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Re: Re(2): routing
On Jan 28, 3:42pm, Jason Kushmaul wrote:
> Subject: Re(2): routing
> So IP masquerading would be what I would use if I only had one ip address
> to use and didn't have reserved ip addresses already set up on the other
> end?
> Are there any disadvantages/advantages of this?
> just for knowledge purposes....
>
IP Masq. gives you additional security in that your internal machines are
unreachable from the internet unless you explicity set them up to be so.
IP Masq. does present some problems with ICMP and propritary and "odd"
protocols like ftp and quake, etc... But these can be overcome.