Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:41:50 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Jake <jake@checker.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a possible NAT setup Message-ID: <199807242041.IAA02257@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199807241613.MAA00409@elephants.dyn.ml.org>
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On 24 Jul 98, at 12:13, Jake wrote: > this fall some friends and are thinking of getting a cable modem > or an ADSL connection and would like to access it from three computers > using a network address translator, FreeBSD of course, probably -stable. > This mainly applies to the cable modem, since with ADSL we could get three > IP addresses eliminating the need for any translating. This is what I have, but over the phone line, not cable modem. > What kind of CPU power will the NAT need for it not to be a bottleneck > between us and the internet? I have a 386DX40 I was thinking of using; 8 > megs of RAM, 2 100 megs hard drives and 2 ne2000 ethernet cards. Will this > thing be able to keep up with the cable modem? It would probably also be a > mail server, ftp server and web server, maybe samba to share a printer, > but with very little load on those services since its just the three of > us. The other machines are reasonably fast pentiums; one running > FreeBSD-current ( my machine :) ), the other two running win95. My guess is yes. I'm running a 486, and the load is 0,0,0. > What kind of network applications will we be able to use from behind > the NAT? I generally just web surf, ftp, cvsup to keep my ports current, > etc. My friends are into IRC, ICQ and network games, quake2, etc. Stuff I > couldn't care less about, but they will be paying 1/3 of the bill so... > Can they use these services without a real IP? I guess all of the above. I'm running IRC, and ICQ, but not games. > I've read a bunch of articles about setting up the network and stuff, I'm > sure I can do it relatively easily, I'm just worried they won't be happy > without a direct internet connection. Is there another package besides > ipfw that would be better suited to our needs? I don't know, I'm still a newbie. But if you want to know what to avoid doing, try reading the stuff on my website. Please laugh if you do. <grin> -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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