IP Masquerade 1) is a networking function that allows a computer to act as an IP gateway that translates address 2) similar to the one-to-many (1:Many) NAT (Network Address Translation) servers found in:
IP Masquerade is also known as:
If:
the IP Masquerade feature allows the “internal” computers
It allows a set of machines to invisibly access the Internet via the MASQ gateway.
It can be used with any lan connection (ethernet, …)
A masquerade would replace the source address:
how Masquerade, NAT, and Proxy differ, see what-is-masq