Results 1 to 3 of 3 What is the actual difference between a NAT
and Proxy. Please help in this context...... Enjoy an ad free
experience by logging in. Not a member yet? Register. -
05-11-2007 #1 - Join Date - Oct 2006 NAT and PROXY What is the
actual difference between a NAT and Proxy. Please help in this
context... - 05-11-2007 #2 A proxy usually only forwards stuff
one one protocal like http. Sometimes it adds headers and stuff
so that the destination knows that it's gone through a proxy. A
computer running NAT rewrites all packets sent to it so that
they are from itself, so to the outside world it looks like it
is from the IP of the router, not the original computer. This is
protocol independant although some might have issues. -
05-12-2007 #3 At a first glance a proxy has the same
functionality as nat: You have one system which acts as a relay
and which accepts NW requests from an internal site and acts as
a relay such that the destination of the request sees the IP
address of the relay host and the inte