From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 23 9: 0:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889F237B91B for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:00:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id JAA32884; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:00:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:00:25 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200002231700.JAA32884@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: up@3.am Subject: Re: NAT port redirection question Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:41:06 -0500 (EST) >From: >.... What it boils down to is that the natd man page is a complete waste >of time :-/ (somebody already told me this, but did *I* listen? noooo...) Hmmm.... I certainly found it useful; perhaps the above warrants some phrasing that restricts the scope to the situation you were addressing. >All I needed was the one alias port line in my /etc/ppp/conf, and that was >it. Case in point: I wasn't using PPP -- I was setting up a nat/ipfw firewall for a DSL connection (with a static IP address).... So in my case, it was quite helpful... and I'll take this opportunity to extend a hearty "thank you!" to the folks who contributed to natd (and ipfw). Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message