[Discuss] firewalld rant

Dale R. Worley worley at alum.mit.edu
Mon Nov 23 10:35:53 EST 2020


> From: Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org>
>
> Dale R. Worley wrote: 
>> As in the above example, when you set masquerading on interface X,
>> *which* packets coming from *which* interfaces are masqueraded *how*
>> going out *which* interface?
>
> This is consistent on all NAT systems: masquerading refers to changing
> the source address for forwarding packets exiting a system for their
> next destination. It applies on an outgoing interface, and
> without further elaboration, to all matching packets going out
> from that interface.

That's good to know, but where is that written down?

Dale


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