From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 10:40:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06179 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:40:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06168 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01401; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Child cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd or -alias In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970116113303.00caad5c@sommer> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Child wrote: > Hi all > I am using a freeBSD box (2.2.5-REL) as a network router for 9 win95 pc's > to a dialup internet connection > i m currently using the ppp -alias switch to preform NAT > everything works fine but IRC DCC is this a problem with ppp -alias or > should i go for natd? IRC DDC must have a strange communications type since any aliasing/nat mucks it up. You may need to set up ppp (or ipfw if you're using that) to forward the appropriate packets. Check the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search.html. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major