From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 18 13:43:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsdmall.com (www.freebsdmall.com [66.220.2.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB05637B400 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:43:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 2135) id 9604E2E827; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:43:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2432AA43; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:43:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:43:26 -0800 (PST) From: Chern Lee X-X-Sender: To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: Subject: Re: natd does not work In-Reply-To: <20020316075540.GA945@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> Message-ID: <20020318134217.V37524-100000@www.freebsdmall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the clarification, I was just going by natd(8): This program provides a Network Address Translation facility for use with divert(4) sockets under FreeBSD. It is intended for use with NICs - if you want to do NAT on a PPP link, use the -nat switch to ppp(8). Perhaps this needs to be updated, not my area though, volunteers are welcome :) - chern On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > Hello Chern, > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:45:15PM -0800, Chern Lee wrote: > > Try freebsd-questions@freebsd.org for help, this is a documentation > > discussion list. > > > > I suggest reading the ppp(8) man page (man ppp). You'll have to look at > > the -nat option, you cannot use natd over a PPP connection. > > Although this poster really should have tried -questions first, just for > the sake of completeness I would like to note that you *can* use natd > with ppp, that's what I'm doing right now:-) But it needs to be set up > properly. Eg if you receive your address via DHCP, then natd needs to > know via the "-dynamic" flag. But we do not know if this was the case > with this poster. So yes, -questions and the documentation should he > check:-) > > -- > Regards: > > Szilveszter ADAM > Szombathely Hungary > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message