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From: Pete C <junk@thechristies.net>
Subject: Re: Alternative to NATD or IPNAT for cable connection.
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At Sunday, 20 October 2002, "JoeB" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> wrote:

>Help please, I looking for a software port that does NAT 
>(network address translation).  Before getting cable I used user 
>PPP for dial up ISP with NAT function and then IPFW with 
>keep-state rules. This worked great because NAT was being done 
>outside of IPFW.  Once I went to cable with DHCP I had to also go 
>to IPFW with NATD. NATD has problems with IPFW keep-state rules 
>where rules are mis-matched because of IPFW getting confused between 
>private and public ip address.  
>
>Does anybody know of an stand-a-lone NAT program?   
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I had similar trouble when switching to cable . . . 

found this How-To helpful

http://www.freebsd-howto.com/HOWTO/Ipfw-Advanced-Supplement-HOWTO

PeteC 




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