On Monday 20 October 2003 11:45 am, Gilles Yue wrote: > Dear all, > > What's the difference between somebody using a > proxy server such a squid to share the internet and someone using NAT/IP > Masquerade? Packets don't get routed through a proxy server - the request is handled by the proxy, and a new request to the true destination machine is generated. There are two independent network connections involved - client to proxy, and proxy to server. NAT is simply a router which fiddles around with the source (and perhaps destination) address in the IP header. Packets go through the machine, so there's only a single network connection involved - client to server (through the NAT machine). Antony. -- If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation.
