It'd be nice to be able to change the masquerade NAT rule to be one of the many kinds of NAT available: full cone, port/address restricted cone, or symmetric. Is this possible?
What is the advantage of being able to set different types of NAT.
I have not run across the need for such dexterity?
Also can you give an example of how sourcenat accomplishes the same thing as cone nat or restricted etc......... (given a practical example by the OP for example).
What is the advantage of being able to set different types of NAT.
Sometimes you need to do something very specific that requires a special feature, and it's also a selling point compared to other network OSes like IOS.
If I understand things correctly (and very likely I don't), these terms really apply fully when one has multiple public addresses. In that case there are ways to acomplish target manually or semi-automatically under ROS.
If one only has single public address (usual situation for home users), then these terms are simply buzzwords without any meaning.