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From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple default routes on multihome host 
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At 2008-02-18 22:12:48+0000, Julian Elischer writes:

> Unless you actually want all your machines to be remotely
> accessible from the outside, you should probably just turn on
> NAT on the new ISP interface, turn off the old one, and be
> done with it.

The machines I'm interested in for these purposes are all servers of
one sort or another, which need to be externally routable.  The
desktops will indeed Just Work with NAT/DHCP.

I'll look at the IPFW fwd rules.  Thanks to all for your help.

Nick B