From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 12:21:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C58F16A4DD for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:21:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B636543D46 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:21:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 22599 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2006 12:21:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (775067@[217.50.129.75]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Aug 2006 12:21:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:21:20 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: Tyler Brincheski Message-ID: <20060804142120.1bf45294@localhost> In-Reply-To: <001401c6b7b5$06eac2d0$0a0fa8c0@MACHINE01> References: <001401c6b7b5$06eac2d0$0a0fa8c0@MACHINE01> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2006-08-19.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_0KsAuayENn/TVKYrmXHgvjU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions inregards to NATD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:21:31 -0000 --Sig_0KsAuayENn/TVKYrmXHgvjU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tyler Brincheski wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on P1 Super Socket 7 system (533 > mhz.) I have installed 2 Adaptec Ana-6944 cards, these cards have 4 > ports on each. I have a seperate D Link card, that is supported. My > question is, all the online documentation has indicated the usage for > the natd daemon is used for Network Address Translation, however it > doesnt indicate weather I can use all 8 ports ( 4 from each card) as > LAN ports, with the DLink's connection as the WAN port. Is this > possible? If you can configure all 8 ports with ifconfig, you shouldn't have any problems using them for NAT. If you want to use all internal ports in the same network, I suggest you only give on of them an IP address, configure it for NAT and then use if_bridge to connect it with the other ones. Otherwise you could run into routing problems. Note that you don't have to use natd for NAT, you can also use PF and safe some cpu time. If your system has other work to do and you have lots of connections, it could make a difference. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_0KsAuayENn/TVKYrmXHgvjU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE0zvGjV8GA4rMKUQRAtWsAKC1RVpihhhz9KkdMe4idVGBJHXEaACdEroO PIPzAQtz6CBLX7LIc9M9gdc= =aTCo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_0KsAuayENn/TVKYrmXHgvjU--