In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >An interesting problem... > >we have a legacy network which has IPs : 95.x.x.x ( NOT REGISTERED, i.e >illegal) >that we can't change now !!! ( those network enginners of 1994,when the network >was installed; obviously did not know about rfc1918 ) > >now we want to connect this network to the Internet... we cannot re-number our >network... so i looked at using a linux box with NAT ...that should be straight >forward ... right ? wrong ! hey this is fun !! > >and i am a bit confused... > >NAT -- for 2.0.36 and 2.2.x is available ... but it does NOT support "Dynamic >NAT" i.e. 95.x.x.x NATed behind ONE IP >(http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/HyperNews/get/linux-ip-nat.html) >It does support static NAT though ... it should be good to NAT our internal web >server with a Legal IP.... (any comments ?) > >The new NAT code IPROUTE in the 2.3.x kernels requires iproute ... whose docs >are not good enough for me(anybody care to explain ?)... and then the code is >still very alpha...
I dont know anything about NAT code, other then... >IP MASQ supports network NAT very well....but the docs say that we have to use >only private IPs..... so .. can i use IP MASQ to hide my 95.x.x.x network also >?? This is what I would do. The only possible problem I can imagine is if you try to connect to the Internet host that really does have the address 95.x.x.x (you would get the host on the local network instead). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
