What's IP address masquerading and what problem does it solve?
Issue
- After adding a port forward to firewalld/iptables/nftables, the port forward doesn't work until masquerading is enabled on the interface.
- What does IP address masquerading do?
- What does
firewall-cmd --add-masquerade
do?
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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