Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:56:08 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: Mark Hughes <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -nat or natd? Message-ID: <3B554F28.89960778@i-clue.de> References: <014d01c10ebc$fe3ee5e0$0200a8c0@mark2>
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Mark Hughes schrieb: > > I have a DSL connection, which uses PPPoA through a USB Alcatel Speedtouch > "modem". I've got the modem working fine, I was just wondering if there are > any benefits to switching to use natd rather than ppp -nat to gate the > connection to my network of four windows clients? The only reason I can think of would be if you want to use ipfw, too. Anyhow, having an external dynamic IP combined with ipfw would be a major hassle. Thus, if you do not need ipfw, you want to use ppp -natd instead. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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