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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:35:08 -0000
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Peter Elsner <peter@sri-software.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird Problem...
Message-ID:  <443cckq95x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20031119152457.01be3cd8@mail.sri-software.com>
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Please don't top-post.

Peter Elsner <peter@sri-software.com> writes:

> Thanks, that's my next attempt.  I don't have NAT running right now,
> but didn't think it was required unless I have the firewall enabled.
> I usually enable that after I get everything else up and running.

NAT has nothing to do with firewalling.  For efficiency reasons, they
are often done in the same place, as with ipfw being the way that
packets get fed into natd, but they are functionally unrelated.

Please read the "Network Address Translation" chapter in the FreeBSD
handbook.  



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