Re: newbie question upon LAN

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Viestissä Tiistai 8. Lokakuuta 2002 17:53, Jean Francois Ortolo kirjoitti:
>   My last question yet:  Either is forwarding necessary with masquerading,
> or masquerading sufficient enough ?

Port forwarding is needed only if you want to run services visible to the 
outside Internet on the computers on the LAN.

>   I believed the ports forwarding was being completed by the hub itself ?

A hub is a "dumb" device, it just connects all computers on a LAN to each 
other. It doesn't process the packets flowing through it in any way.

-- 
	Markku Kolkka
	markku.kolkka@koti.soon.fi





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