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Subject: Re: Running NATD on a dialup connection
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Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
Hello,

What about ppp -alias ? *(on a recent userland-ppp)

	TfH

> 
> I have a small home network.  Two Win98 machines and a FreeBSD machine.
> They're all networked on 10baseT, and the FreeBSD machine will have the
> dialup connection (right now I'm running WinGate on one of the Win98
> machines).  I've been reading on NATD and I'm setting up rc.conf, and
> I need to specify the public interface on which to setup NATD.  The
> problem is that I read that the public interface needs to be connected
> before running NATD.  This is impossible since there's only one phone
> line here.  I want to setup the connection so that if one of the two
> other computers requests the Internet, then pppd will start up
> automatically, and NATD will handle the aliasing.  I'm also setting
> up the firewall rules (right now the kernel is set to deny everything
> and I need to define the rulesets properly).  I also know there are
> issues with named.  I want it to be authoritative for the network, yet
> when requesting from the outside world, be a caching only server. I
> have DNS and BIND second edition, so I'll check this up on my own.
> 
> My basic question is how do I get NATD to work properly if I have to
> make my PPP connection alive before starting it, yet only need to start
> pppd on request?  Do I setup NATD within rc.conf, or elsewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Manu
> 
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