What is the difference between spoofing and masquerading?
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this is a bit tricky ... masquerading when understood as ip-masquerading is a technical necessity to allow a network access to another network through one gateway like a wlan-router for example. the router translates all local ip-addresses into the public ip that was dynamically assigned during the routers connect to the provider, so all local machines that access the net through this router seems to have those one public ip-address (kind of Network Address Translation = NAT).
spoofing is nearly the same ... when you mean ip-spoofing. in this case you would hide your public ip-address by modifiying it to another public ip ... with the intention of being anonymous or even worse ... being somebody else or better someone special like a specific company or person ... to do things in the name of someone else ... so basically it could be said that masquerading turns into spoofing when you would hide your ip-address with a bad intention ...
kind regards
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