Re: (PM) redirection(?) of IP address with a filter? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:48:58 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Jake Messinger shaped the electrons to say...
>:Once upon a time Stephen Johnson shaped the electrons to say...
>:>Using a filter, is there a way to redirect an IP address to a different IP
>:>address? For example, for a user with this filter when they go to access our
>:>local server x, I want them to get our local server p. Is that do-able or am
>I think he is eluding to ChoiceNat filtering. ;-)

I really don't think that is what he is asking. ChoiceNet, or IP filters for
that matter, can't do redirection. That is an application of NAT/NAPT.
Remapping the destination IP address. True, you could trigger this with a
filter syntax, but it is not by nature a filter.

-MZ

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