From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 23 10:15:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38E7E37B973 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:15:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 65341 invoked by uid 1825); 23 Feb 2000 18:15:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Feb 2000 18:15:08 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:15:08 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAT port redirection question In-Reply-To: <200002231700.JAA32884@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:41:06 -0500 (EST) > >From: > > >.... What it boils down to is that the natd man page is a complete waste > >of time :-/ (somebody already told me this, but did *I* listen? noooo...) > > Hmmm.... I certainly found it useful; perhaps the above warrants some > phrasing that restricts the scope to the situation you were addressing. Your'e absolutely correct. I should have said; using natd with (user) ppp is a waste of time. Greg's (mostly excellent) book confused me here a bit, as it had instructions for using both together, and included the -alias switch, which I'm beginning to realize, negated the need for any natd-specific configuration. > >All I needed was the one alias port line in my /etc/ppp/conf, and that was > >it. > > Case in point: I wasn't using PPP -- I was setting up a nat/ipfw > firewall for a DSL connection (with a static IP address).... > > So in my case, it was quite helpful... and I'll take this opportunity to > extend a hearty "thank you!" to the folks who contributed to natd (and > ipfw). ditto to the people that helped straighten out my confused brain. :) Thanks! James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message