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This is my second NAT story, for the first one look at The Story Of NAT, part 1
Writing this up so I will remember what I did, and why. Basic problem is this: How do you make a filesystem in a public VLAN available on a private network? One solution is to work with Network Address Translation, or NAT in short. More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
We have a storage device which we refer to as flexstorage.wesleyan.edu which serves up a file system on login node petaltail.
[root@petaltail ~]# host flexstorage flexstorage.wesleyan.edu has address 129.133.24.81 [root@petaltail ~]# df -h /home/dlbgroup Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on flexstorage.wesleyan.edu:/share/dlbgroup 1000G 588G 413G 59% /home/dlbgroup