From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 10 12:30:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA26128 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freelove.globalserve.net (dialin1151.toronto.globalserve.net [209.90.134.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA25730 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 12:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pjp@tap.system.ca) Received: from localhost (pjp@localhost) by freelove.globalserve.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA06107; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:26:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:26:23 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Philipp To: Mark Szlaga cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP-Masquerade and NAT In-Reply-To: <34673929.41C67EA6@umd.umich.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Mark Szlaga wrote: > I see in the faq that FreeBSD supports NAT. My question is how > well. I am currently running Linux w/ IP-Masq on a P-200MMX dual. I am > trying to get Linux runnig on my new gateway, a 386/SX-25 with 2x 40MB > MFM hdd's (it's what I had available.) My answer is very well. I'm using natd and just recently played with the port_redirect option. It's fairly amazing. I did however find that with the 2.2.2-REL kernel I had problems of the kernel crashing when I used natd. It caused a page fault, but after upgrading the kernel to a releng after that it seemed to work fine. Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a supporter of the anti-spam campaign.