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Forwarding and Masquerading???

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From: Matthew Bennetts
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 00:00
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Hi,

I need to allow connections from the Internet to a particular service on
one of my company's host machines. However, this host must never see, or be
seen, from the Internet!

I would like to setup a Linux PC to act as a sort of proxy to forward IP
packets destined for its own IP address on a certain port on a machine on
another network without exposing this other network and its hosts to the
Internet. How do I go about doing this?

...that is to say;

A host on the Internet MUST think that it is communicating with a service
on a particular port of the Linux PC, but in reality it is communicating
with that service on another host! 

NOTE: Connection to this service will ALWAYS originate from the Internet.
Also, the internal network is using unregistered class C addresses.

Please help - thanks,
   Matthew Bennetts
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From: "Matthew Bennetts" <bennetts@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Forwarding and Masquerading???
Date: 1997/04/25
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