Enabling NAT for Systems Without Static IP Addresses
If all the systems on your network have real static IP addresses that are valid on the Internet, you’re done setting up your gateway router. You can now configure the other systems on the network to use the host simba as their gateway. These hosts will send to their default gateway any traffic that they do not know how to deliver. The default gateway system will then worry about handling this traffic and directing it to its proper destination on the Internet.
Note
This section and the ones that follow assume that you already have a working Internet connection on the system that you want to configure as the gateway to the Internet. If this is not the case, see Chapter 23 for setting up network ...
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