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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 01:15:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "David L. Vondrasek" <david@davidv.net>
To:        "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Setting up BSD as a gateway
Message-ID:  <199810070617.BAA03147@ns1.davidv.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810060800320.10755-100000@mercury.webnology.com>

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On 06-Oct-98 Jasper O'Malley wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David Vondrasek wrote:
> 
>> Why does he have to run natd ?
> 
> If he's using a standard ISP dialup account, he only has one
> globally-unique IP address. You need natd (or ipfilter, or a proxy
> application) to make network traffic from the win95 box look like it's
> coming from the valid IP.

I have 1 IP assigned to my dedicated 33.6 and I'm not running any
ipfiltering or a proxy

Here is a ps-ax just to show ya !


david@ns1:/etc/namedb : ps -ax
  PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
    0  ??  DLs    0:00.60  (swapper)
    1  ??  Ss     0:00.40 /sbin/init --
    2  ??  DL     0:00.21  (pagedaemon)
    3  ??  DL     0:00.00  (vmdaemon)
    4  ??  DL     2:30.40  (update)
   27  ??  Is     0:00.02 adjkerntz -i
   47  ??  Ss    24:10.16 ppp -auto -alias dial-ia
   87  ??  Ss     0:04.36 syslogd
   93  ??  Ss     0:16.55 /usr/sbin/named -b /etc/namedb/named.boot
   99  ??  Is     0:02.43 timed
  102  ??  Is     0:00.01 portmap
  123  ??  Ss     0:02.01 inetd
  126  ??  Ss     0:07.66 cron
  130  ??  Ss     0:05.46 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
(sendmail)
  176  ??  Ss     0:28.62 /usr/local/sbin/httpd
  186  ??  Is     0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/smbd -D
  190  ??  Ss     0:07.05 /usr/local/sbin/nmbd -D
 3123  p0  R+     0:00.04 ps -ax
  208  v0  Is     0:03.30 -tcsh (tcsh)
  209  v1  Is+    0:00.11 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
  210  v2  Is+    0:00.11 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2


I DO have -alias on the ppp line at start up of my ppp session though. :)

> 
>> I'm doing it wil out running natd.
> 
> I'd love to know how.

Sure.. What files can I send you ?

> 
>> I just tell the win95 box it's gateway is the bsd box's IP.
> 
> How many IP addresses were you assigned by your service provider?

1 (one)

> 
>> Note to 1st poster: You have set up internal IP's for each machine
>> right?
> 
> And if he has, how do they get mapped to real IP addresses on the
> Internet
> without natd or a similar facility?

Got me. It just works. I'm no unix guru. I just installed the unix box as
a gateway and pointed the win95 machine to the gateway . Like I said I'll
be willing to send any files off the unix box that may shed light to this.




> 
> Cheers,
> Mick


Cheers !



---
David Vondrasek                                 byteme@airmail.net

--You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????



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