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To: Dirk Hente who wrote (870)	5/27/1998 2:15:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Respond to of 14778

It has this additional capability of a 'mapped link' which turns Wingate into a 'mapping proxy' (whatever this is). Now the question for me is: Is a 'mapping proxy' = a NAT? I'm starting to speculate here, which doesn't really do anyone any good, but I think that SOCKS is the mapping proxy. I view a proxy server as being a functional subset of NATs, meaning that a proxy server could be built to be as fully capable as a NAT, but in general a NAT will work with more "unaware" applications than will a proxy server. However, if an application were nonstandard (e.g., invalid IP addresses, as you say) but explicitly supported a particular proxy server, it could have functionality greater than that afforded by a NAT. So I guess the best we can say generally is: whatever you buy, make sure there's a money-back guarantee.