NAT may be a good short term solution to the address depletion and scaling problems. This is because it requires very few changes and can be installed incrementally. NAT has several negative characteristics that make it inappropriate as a long term solution, and may make it inappropriate even as a short term solution. Only implementation and experimentation will determine its appropriateness.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thing is I knew it as masquerade for years before I heard the term nat.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Linux IPchains from the 2.2 kernel days?

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Early version of slackware from around 95 or so.