From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 20: 1: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B0037B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 935B9A82A; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:00:47 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:00:47 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: Andrew Hesford , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAT without a firewall. Message-ID: <20010309220046.A843@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010309211436.A564@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:18:45PM -0500 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Depends on what you want to do. If you want to share access to one line amongst many machines with private IPs, I believe you need natd. If you just want to pipe a bunch of machines through one gateway, you shouldn't even need a proxy. The only good uses for a proxy are filtering information, or caching it. Is there a specific reason you don't want ipfirewall in your kernel? On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:18:45PM -0500, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > so what isthe next best solution? running squid or another proxy server? -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message