Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 23:29:35 PDT From: "Some Person" <ntvsunix@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.3 (& IP Masquerading) = NAT Message-ID: <20000502062935.44879.qmail@hotmail.com>
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IP Masq. is just a Linux term, non-industry standard term. IP Masq. = NAT (Network Address Translation), ie, which would be a form of circuit level proxy'ing, but not application level proxy'ing. NAT Works at the network layer. ie, converting internal RFC1918 based IP addresses to public internet address, via NAT Routing. I've ran both NAT routing in various situations, Ethernet Bridging, bridged firewall environments, and NAT inclusion based firewall topologies. Various ways you can go about it, but I've personally found FreeBSD and OpenBSD to serve these purposes much better than Linux in many many ways. Just the beauty of BSD! But, it all depends on what you want to do because bridging might be better, or NAT routing... Besides, not to trash Linux or anything, but if you did go Linux, which distro would you go for? That's another hard descision, just too many for my personal liking and becoming too commercialized in my opinion, such as RH (barf), the next M$ of the UN*X world. You can definatly buy from cheapbytes, but why support them? I don't believe they give anything back to the FreeBSD. Buying from WC would atleast goes to a good cause and helps improve, support and advocate FreeBSD in a Linux centric world (unfortunatly). I can't really trash Linux as I've used it before until I discovered FreeBSD/OpenBSD, now I can't see a reason I would want to go back, or even a need to. I think more people need to hear about FreeBSD as something that's NOT Linux. Each of course has it's advantages and disadvanatges, Linux being the later of course.. LOL! Just kidding! ;) Look into natd, and/or IPFilter try them out, read, research and compare > >I've installed a copy of FreeBSD3.3 which came with the Walnut Creek/ >Lehey "Complete FreeBSD" book. Now, I'd like to install an up-to-date >FreeBSD and use it in one box on a LAN as a server. I'd like this >machine to be the only machine connected to the 'outside'/Internet, >but enable other local machines to connect via the FreeBSD box. > >Some questions I'd like to ask you : > >* Can I buy the Cheapbytes FreeBSD 4.0 CD, & upgrade with this ? >How do I do that... Do I install using the FreeBSD3.3 disks, and >then upgrade various packages from the 4.0 disk ? > >* I'm confused by the terminology... From the linux world, >the HOWTOs I've read use the term "IP Masquerading", but I don't find >that with FreeBSD... I find terms such as "IP aliasing". Is this just >a synonym, or is there something more radically different betwixt the >two ? > >Thanks. > >-- >Le biblioteche ci hanno dato il potere, >poi il lavoro č venuto e ci ha reso liberi. >Che prezzo ora, per un piccolo assaggio di dignitą... > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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