Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:46:58 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika <nimrodm@bezeqint.net> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NAT and dial-up user-ppp Message-ID: <20000715104658.A27033@localhost.bsd.net.il> In-Reply-To: <20000714212353.A20246@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:23:53PM -0500 References: <20000714212353.A20246@localhost.localdomain>
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:23:53PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > I'm confused as to whether NAT is useful for a single desktop computer that > uses a modem to dial into an ISP. Is it? Not really. > > My impression is that if this computer served as a gateway for other > computers then yes, NAT would be a good thing. But NAT doesn't do anything > for the actual machine that dials in, right? Or, could I use NAT and This is correct. > > I'm confused...don't I get the IP address of whichever modem I dial into? You usually get a dynamically assigned IP address. This will be used as *your* address (it's not the address of the access server you are dialing into). NAT is useful when you have more than one computer at home and still want to use that single IP address allocated to you. -- Nimrod To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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