Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:09:25 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: chemtechweb@psn.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running NATD on a dialup connection Message-ID: <369DC255.3BC9E03C@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <369DBA08.8238968E@psn.net>
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Emmanuel Gravel wrote: Hello, What about ppp -alias ? *(on a recent userland-ppp) TfH > > I have a small home network. Two Win98 machines and a FreeBSD machine. > They're all networked on 10baseT, and the FreeBSD machine will have the > dialup connection (right now I'm running WinGate on one of the Win98 > machines). I've been reading on NATD and I'm setting up rc.conf, and > I need to specify the public interface on which to setup NATD. The > problem is that I read that the public interface needs to be connected > before running NATD. This is impossible since there's only one phone > line here. I want to setup the connection so that if one of the two > other computers requests the Internet, then pppd will start up > automatically, and NATD will handle the aliasing. I'm also setting > up the firewall rules (right now the kernel is set to deny everything > and I need to define the rulesets properly). I also know there are > issues with named. I want it to be authoritative for the network, yet > when requesting from the outside world, be a caching only server. I > have DNS and BIND second edition, so I'll check this up on my own. > > My basic question is how do I get NATD to work properly if I have to > make my PPP connection alive before starting it, yet only need to start > pppd on request? Do I setup NATD within rc.conf, or elsewhere? > > Thanks, > > Manu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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