Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 06:54:04 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: joe@via.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP MASQUERADING? Message-ID: <199711111154.GAA12438@lakes.dignus.com>
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> > > A customer of mine uses Linux as a 'virtual console' for a farm > of sun workstations. He clains that the FreeBSD multiport serial > card drivers will not allow a break to be sent to the serial ports > on the card. Is this true? > > Also, they use linux for a firewall. They clean that FreeBSD cannot do > IP masquerading. Is this true? > > -joe > I don't believe the first one to be true - I suppose it would depend on the multiport serial cards (but if the hardware can do it, and we have the driver; we can do it.) As far as the IP masquerading goes; FreeBSD does it splendidly. The NAT (Network Address Translation) routines are available for almost all versions of FreeBSD; and became part of the system for 2.2.5. I use it for everything, including this mail you're reading. - Dave Rivers -
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