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   From: boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org   
      
   Hello,   
      
   yawnmoth a écrit :   
   > I just encountered a webserver whose gateway seems to be rewriting the   
   > destination IP addresses of outgoing packets to another computer on   
   > the LAN - a proxy. My question is... why would you want to do this?   
      
   Maybe because the gateway is just that : a gateway, not a proxy.   
      
   > Also, does this behavior have a name associated with it?  It   
   > seems sorta like network address translation in practice but not in   
   > spirit since it's not being used to connect a private network to a   
   > public one.   
      
   It is destination NAT, sometimes called port forwarding when only   
   specific destination ports are concerned. Connecting a private network   
   to a public one is just one use of NAT.   
      
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