A technique by which several hosts share a single IP address for access to the Internet This process is an extension of Network Address Translator (NAT) See also Network Address Translator
A form of filtering in which packets from one machine to the outside world have their headers rewritten so that they appear to come from an intermediate machine That intermediate machine then passes responses back to the originating machine The net effect is that an entire network of machines can appear to use a single IP number, that of the masquerading host, for the purpose of outgoing connections
A Linux feature that enables several machines on a LAN to access the Internet via the gateway's single IP address