From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 1:54: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D116537B407 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:54:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA18259; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:01:47 +0200 Message-ID: <3B554F28.89960778@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:56:08 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hughes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -nat or natd? References: <014d01c10ebc$fe3ee5e0$0200a8c0@mark2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mark Hughes schrieb: > > I have a DSL connection, which uses PPPoA through a USB Alcatel Speedtouch > "modem". I've got the modem working fine, I was just wondering if there are > any benefits to switching to use natd rather than ppp -nat to gate the > connection to my network of four windows clients? The only reason I can think of would be if you want to use ipfw, too. Anyhow, having an external dynamic IP combined with ipfw would be a major hassle. Thus, if you do not need ipfw, you want to use ppp -natd instead. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message