Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 19:20:09 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@it.hq.nasa.gov> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: NAT? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970305190512.27323A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199703051538.PAA10101@wirehead.it.hq.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Chris Shenton wrote: > Doug said: > > Take a peek at IPFilter, or newer versions of the ppp included with > FreeBSD include an -alias option that does the necessary translations. > > I did, but couldn't find info -- no man page info about "alias" in ppp > nor pppd pages; which one were you meaning here? I also didn't find > any man page on "ipfilter" :-( Did you install ipfilter? After you do, do man -k ipnat and it'll give you plenty of info. > > I'm running 2.1.7-RELEASE and just cvsup'ed the ports collection: I > don't find ppp, pppd, or ipfilter there. ppp and pppd are part of FreeBSD itself. IPfilter can be compiled pretty easily from the standard sources. Take a look at: http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ > > Thanks. > > PS: any comparisons on ipfilter vs. ipfw for a newbie to both (but > not networking in general)? I know this provoked a bit of a heated > debate here a while back: I am looking mainly for NAT. Just curious > because I do see an /etc/rc.firewall which uses ipfw, not ipfilter. > For your purposes ipfw simply doesn't do the job. It does not provide NAT facilities. IPfilter does. I guess that makes the choice easier for you. I used to use IPfilter in 2.1.0R days and when I've moved to 2.1.5 I changed to ipfw, but I don't do NAT. Nadav
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