From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 19: 3:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6909637B491 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 79499 invoked by uid 100); 24 Feb 2001 03:03:33 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14999.9349.800345.298587@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:03:33 -0600 To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipfw with dial-up In-Reply-To: <91616521@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mikko Tyolajarvi types: > In local.freebsd.questions you write: > However, does the tutorial really say that you should use natd and > ipfw with a dial-up ppp connection? The "ppp" program can do NAT > as well as packet filtering. The filtering is less advanced than > that of ipfw, but adequate as a basic firewall. > > Check ppp(8) and /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample. Check the natd(8) man page, last sentence of the first paragraph: It is intended for use with NICs - if you want to do NAT on a PPP link, use the -nat switch to ppp(8). http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message