From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 25 08:32:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA24653 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from luomat.peak.org (cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.83.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA24648 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luomat@luomat.peak.org) Received: (from luomat@localhost) by luomat.peak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14554; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:32:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711251632.LAA14554@luomat.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.1mach v148) X-Image-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/luomat@peak.org.tiff In-Reply-To: X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.1mach (Enhance 2.1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148.RR) From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Tue, 25 Nov 97 11:32:48 -0500 To: Charles Mott Subject: Re: lowest end FBSD router machine possible cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: X-Image-URL-Disclaimer: hey, it's off my student ID, gimme a break ;-) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Author: Charles Mott Original-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:28:04 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: > If you are getting the 486 machine only to run IP masquerading and you are > not experienced, there could be some problems. Natd is really a bonus for > people who already want to use FreeBSD for other purposes. is IP masq = natd? I'm not sure if you are talking about 1 thing or 2 -- yes this is new to me, although UNIX isn't. Yes the machine will be running headless, serving as an IP-masq box. What types of problems were you envisioning? I've heard that FBSD did this better than Linux (from a Linux user) so I was thinking it would be better to use FBSD than Linux for it... TjL