On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:18 +0000, Flávio Pires wrote: > In article <f9i90g$fqc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mateus > Interciso<p.zarnick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, I'm pretty sure this is basic stuff, but what's the difference > > between a Bridge, and a NAT? > A bridge just pass the packets through the interfaces without > modifying `em.NAT as its name says, translate your IP address. You also could also think as a bridge being a Layer 2 "Handler", while NAT is a Layer 3 "translator". -- Breno Leitão Linux eServer IO, LTC Brazil T/L: 839-1293 Phone: +55 16 8115-3915 leitao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
