Full NAT, DNAT and SNAT aka 1:1 NAT, 1 to 1 NAT – this is used when you want to map a dedicated external IP on an external interface to another IP on a separate interface with everything routed between them.
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ${EXTERNAL_IF} -d ${EXTERNAL_IP} -j DNAT –to-destination ${INTERNAL_IP}
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ${EXTERNAL_IF} -s ${INTERNAL_IP} -j SNAT –to-source ${EXTERNAL_IP}
route add -host ${EXTERNAL_IP} ${INTERNAL_IF}
arp -Ds ${EXTERNAL_IP} ${INTERNAL_IF}
Tags: dnat, iptables, nat, route, snat
Here’s a really quick rundown on setting up masquerading. You’d use this to share one internet connection between multiple local network machines. It’s what most regular ‘routers’ that your ISP sends out do and it’s really easy to set up under Linux in it’s most simplest form
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Tags: iptables, ip_forward, Linux, masquerade, masquerading, modprobe, nat, postrouting
OpenVPN is a popular Windows/Linux VPN Server/Client pair. I think there’s a separate GUI available for it if you’re so minded. This howto will cover command line usage only.
I’ll provide example configuration based on a Linux server and a Windows client, however the same applies pretty easily if you wanted to mix and match.
On debian, apt-get install openvpn. On any other linux distro, use your own package manager or alternatively download from source and compile.
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