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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:49:32 +0000
From:      Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com>
To:        Mohsin Rahman <mtech@buffnet.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Question List q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NAT & PPPoE (detailed email)
Message-ID:  <4051F82C.6040404@circlesquared.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10403121229020.95864-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10403121229020.95864-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net>

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Mohsin Rahman wrote:

>Thank you. I will try tun0 as my nat interface. However, if lets say, the
>modem drops the connection and the next attempt to access the internet,
>wouldn't FreeBSD assign the new ip address to tun1 and basically render
>tun0 nat useless? 
>
I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that if the 
link is dropped, tun0 will disappear, then reappear when the link is 
re-established.

>A better solution might be to let do ppp -nat perhaps.
>
It's certainly an easy way to do it.

PWR



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