From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 07:39:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA15836 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 07:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.hcol.net (ns.hcol.net [205.152.99.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA15829 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 07:39:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from val@ns.hcol.net) Received: from localhost (val@localhost) by ns.hcol.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA26279; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:38:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:38:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Val To: Chris Hill cc: FreeBSD Questions list Subject: Re: bridging? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm, how fast computer do I need to run only NAT and nothing else will a 386 with two nics do the job? (about 40clients will use NAT). Val Tarakanov, CNE icq# 18417970 On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Chris Hill wrote: > Val wrote, > > >i know that freebsd can do ip routing, can it do bridging though so that i > >would not have to subnet the network? > > > >If not, will freebsd do some NAT since the machines i need to connect to > >the internet don't really nothing but access to the mail/www/telnet > >servers? > > NAT works like a champ, and in fact I'm using it right now to mail this > message. This is way cool - I'm paying for one real IP, yet I have a class > C at home thanks to NAT. As far as I can tell, NAT is exactly what you need > for your stated purposes. > > > -- > Chris Hill jchill@dgsys.com > [place witty saying here] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message