[mythtv-users] Ethernet troubles.

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Apr 27 01:04:29 UTC 2009


clemens at dwf.com wrote:
>> Good pointer, and it helps to show that the "routers" found in most homes are 
>> in fact "residential gateways". the "NAT" they can do is actually IP 
>> masquerading, or port address translation. True NAT uses a pool of real IP 
>> addresses, not RFC-1918 "private" addresses, but this error is so common I 
>> find myself using "NAT" when I really mean something else. True NAT is rarely 
>> encountered today, certainly not in home networks.
>>
>>     
> I actually do 'real' NAT to my internal network using IPTABLES on my
> Firewall machine.
>   
You have multiple external IPs with one-to-one mapping to your internal 
network?


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