From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 12:45:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4650B4120 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:45:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p85.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.85]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18956; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 15:45:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38989773.2A68BF53@ds.net> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 15:45:39 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "f.johan.beisser" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD as a router ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I realize that they aren't exactly needed - however he should have all of the options before he makes a decision. Just because ppp -alias will work doesn't mean that it's the best solution. "f.johan.beisser" wrote: > > IPFILTER/IPNAT aren't really needed for this either. since the entire link > is being controlled from ppp(8), you can block just about everything from > there. check the man pages for more info. > > -- jan > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, James A. Mutter wrote: > > > "f.johan.beisser" wrote: > > > > > > under freebsd 3.2 and up, i believe, you need to use ppp -nat. > > > > > > also, IPFW and NATd aren't really needed for what you're trying to do, > > > userland ppp (ppp(8)) can do it all, easily. > > > > > > -- jan > > > > > > > Don't forget the IPFILTER/IPNAT package either. > > +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ > email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan > "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message