I have two machine , say A ,B connected to lan subnet of Router R . Router R is a linux (2.6.18 ) machine with two interface eth0 and eth1 . eth0 is connected to lan side and eth1 is connected to wan side . 192.168.1.100/24 A ----- | | | | ---------------> lan (eth0 ) (192.168.1.1/24) | R | wan(eth1) 10.232.18.100 -----------> B------ | | | 192.168.1.200/24 My understanding is : - NAT on Router R is symmetric nat . I am able to browse internet from both machine A and B . My question is : Can Router R can support different types of NAT simultaneously ( full cone nat ,address restricted nat ....etc ) ? IF only one type of nat is supported , how "ping google.com " works from both machine ? icmp dont have any port information .Still icmp-reply gets routed to correct machine ? Thanks, Ratheesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html