From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 7:33:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B8A37B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:32:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14NzFf-000NA1-00; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:32:55 +0000 To: , From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: ppp packet filtering Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:32:55 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I hope you get an answer to this. I have asked several times on this list for an expert to give some summary of the mystifying number of combinations available for PPP, filters, ipfw, Nat here, Nat there nat everywhere. And the documentation available is contradictory. I am sure someone out there knows. Pure NAT questions get answered, but mention PPP .. and silence reigns .. lol. Cliff > Greetings, > I use userland ppp with the -auto and -nat flags. This is a > good combo for me. I want to do some packet filtering for > security reasons, and wondered if the packet filtering that > you can do with rules in the ppp.conf is good ? The > tutorials I've seen start off by configuring NAT on the system > then using one of the system filtering programs to do the > job. Seems like overkill if ppp can do the job. > > thanks for the input, > Darryl > > > 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