From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 1 04:33:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA15055 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 04:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (ru@relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA15039 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 04:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA28684; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:31:28 +0300 (EET DST) From: Ruslan Ermilov Message-Id: <199708011131.OAA28684@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Subject: Re: NATD -use_sockets option question To: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:31:28 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, ru@ucb.crimea.ua, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi In-Reply-To: from "Charles Mott" at Jul 31, 97 09:41:10 pm X-My-Interests: Unix,Oracle,Networking X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Charles! You wrote: > Ruslan, > > For most users, the "use_sockets" option should be enabled (this is > the default). There are certain cases when the FreeBSD machine is being > only as a router that it is not necessary. So, I should use this option only in the case that IP address used by NATd is also used for host machine (the NATd is runnning on). Right? > I have written a (long) man page for the packet aliasing library which > attempts to explain the meaning of a "partially specified aliasing link" > in an appendix. I sent this man page to the FreeBSD organization but I > don't know if it has been included into the -current source tree yet. What exactly man page did you send? natd(8)? or what? Can you send me a copy of it? One more question: what about `ntalk' special support just as ftp & irc? It would be so great... Thanks in advance, -- Ruslan A. Ermilov System Administrator ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380-652-247 647 Simferopol, Crimea