From owner-freebsd-net Wed Mar 3 23:22:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from SIMULTAN.CH (eunet-gw.simultan.ch [194.191.191.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48ECF14D16 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 23:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tseidmann@simultan.ch) Received: from simultan.ch (wsaltis-053.SIMULTAN.CH [192.92.128.53]) by SIMULTAN.CH (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA34176; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:22:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <36DE346A.1457377A@simultan.ch> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:21:14 +0100 From: Thomas Seidmann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Denninger Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAT and related stuff References: <19990301185618.A7558@Denninger.Net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Karl, Karl Denninger wrote: > 1. Have a small "external" network connected via ISDN to the world - > say, two usable addresses (the router and the FreeBSD box). If your question is whether the use of NAT is appropriate for this situation, then the answer is yes. > 2. Have an unlimited number of internal machines connected to > the "inside network", with their addresses served (most of them > anyway) by DHCP. Same as above. > 3. Have a couple of internal machines that have "exposed" things - that > is, for example, 192.168.1.1:80 really shows up as > 205.164.6.10:2222. The "redirect_address"-feature, aka static NAT is suitable for this. More in natd(8). > 4. Anyone on an internal machine can browse the net, etc - > transparently. I can run DNS on the local FreeBSD machine (and do > currently), so that part is not a problem. Ditto. I don't quite understand your question, i.e. what do you want to know. Let me know if I can help you further. Regards, Thomas -- ========================================================== Thomas Seidmann Senior IT systems architect Simultan AG, CH-6246 Altishofen, Switzerland mailto:tseidmann@simultan.ch tel +41.62.7489000 http://www.simultan.ch/~thomas fax +41.62.7489010 ========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message