From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 0:53:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD92C37BC11 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 00:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nimrodm@bezeqint.net) Received: from bsd.net.il ([212.179.172.53]) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FXQ002PTB7H2J@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:52:30 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA27303 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:46:58 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:46:58 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: NAT and dial-up user-ppp In-reply-to: <20000714212353.A20246@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 09:23:53PM -0500 To: FreeBSD questions Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000715104658.A27033@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD questions User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <20000714212353.A20246@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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