From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 21:29:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F49C37B403 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f9A4TQI78931; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:29:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: airyk@sdf.lonestar.org (Erik Sabowski) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppoe and nat Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:29:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:55:08 +0000 (UTC), in = sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >when you enable nat in the ppp.conf file, does ppp do all the nating for >you?=20 Yes >do you still have to set up the nat deamon and everything?=20 No >and if >ppp does take care of all the nating, do you still need to enable >IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT in the kernel? these are two different things. Its a good idea to have IPFIREWALL and = use ipfw to block certain inbound ports. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message