From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 19:51:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E5637BB51 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 19:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA13560 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:51:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (areca-29-028097.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.97]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma013521; Fri, 14 Jul 00 21:51:33 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA20257 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:23:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:23:53 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD questions Subject: NAT and dial-up user-ppp Message-ID: <20000714212353.A20246@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm confused as to whether NAT is useful for a single desktop computer that uses a modem to dial into an ISP. Is it? My impression is that if this computer served as a gateway for other computers then yes, NAT would be a good thing. But NAT doesn't do anything for the actual machine that dials in, right? Or, could I use NAT and everything will look as if it comes from the host I dial into? I'm confused...don't I get the IP address of whichever modem I dial into? -- David Kanter djkanter@northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message