From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 4:25:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD9237B405 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 04:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ceri@techsupport.co.uk) Received: from ceri by cartman.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15MpRw-0007Z3-00; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:25:04 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:25:04 +0100 From: Ceri To: Christoph Sold Cc: Mark Hughes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -nat or natd? Message-ID: <20010718122504.C22510@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <014d01c10ebc$fe3ee5e0$0200a8c0@mark2> <3B554F28.89960778@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B554F28.89960778@i-clue.de>; from so@server.i-clue.de on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:56:08AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:56:08AM +0200, Christoph Sold said: > 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. Why ? Can't you just use the -u and -dynamic flags to natd and use the interface name in your ipfw ruleset ? I'm not having a go, but I'm going to be in this situation soon and that was my plan. Will it not work ? Ceri -- I probably wouldn't like you. Really. I really probably wouldn't like you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message