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To: Andrew Thomson <ajthomson@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: nat + ipfw + adsl
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<Lots of colloquialisms trimmed for the benefit of non-Australians>

Andrew Thomson <ajthomson@optushome.com.au> writes:

> I've got PPPoE running fine under BSD now with my new ADSL provider
> however am curious if I can just plug in my current firewall and
> s/fxp0/tun0/g in appropriate places.. namely for nat and the ipfw
> rules..
> 
> I've grown quite accustomed to using ipfw and natd and would prefer to
> use it over ppp -nat and it's filtering rules..

Yes, that should work fine.  The filtering in ppp(8) is, if I recall,
implemented with the same libraries as ipfw, so the functionality is
similar.  The syntax is different, but not *very* different...

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