netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scribbled on Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:51: > I'm creating a gateway that has dynamic addresses for most of the > internal machines. I'm using masquerading successfully but my > question is this...i have some machines for which I want to use static > internal addresses...do i need to setup an snat rule for these > machines or is masquerading adequate? A brief sentence in a how-to > made me think maybe masquerading wasn't the right way to go for these > machines...but i'm not sure. That's about *external* dynamic IP adresses, not internal. User SNAT is you have a static external IP (and are not using a ppp adapter for your internet connection, if I remember correctly). Gr, Rob
