From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 18:30:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0668014F76 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:30:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA57321; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:30:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:30:42 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall: ipfw or natd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Duke Normandin wrote: > What criterion (ia) are used for determining the use of ipfw or natd > in creating a firewall? TIA.. > > -duke > Hi, Duke. I use both on my systems. They serve different purposes. ipfw provides firewall packet filtering services between two or more machines. natd provides network address translation, presumably to convert internal LAN ip addresses to and from public IPs. -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message