From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 18 16:21:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay3.adelphia.net (smtprelay3.adelphia.net [64.8.25.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C41637B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay3.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGOZJY03.G50; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:21:34 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6INJFJ58744; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:19:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:19:15 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: Ceri Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp -nat or natd? Message-ID: <20010718191915.C51074@localhost> References: <014d01c10ebc$fe3ee5e0$0200a8c0@mark2> <3B554F28.89960778@i-clue.de> <20010718122504.C22510@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010718122504.C22510@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>; from ceri@techsupport.co.uk on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:25:04PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can use ipfw fairly easily with a dynamic IP externally. Check out this link www.freebsd.org/tutorials/dialup-firewall/index.html Ian As it was put forth by Ceri on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:25:04PM +0100... > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:56:08AM +0200, Christoph Sold said: > > Mark Hughes schrieb: > > > > > > I have a DSL connection, which uses PPPoA through a USB Alcatel Speedtouch > > > "modem". I've got the modem working fine, I was just wondering if there are > > > any benefits to switching to use natd rather than ppp -nat to gate the > > > connection to my network of four windows clients? > > > > The only reason I can think of would be if you want to use ipfw, too. > > Anyhow, having an external dynamic IP combined with ipfw would be a > > major hassle. > > Why ? > Can't you just use the -u and -dynamic flags to natd and use the interface > name in your ipfw ruleset ? > > I'm not having a go, but I'm going to be in this situation soon and that was > my plan. Will it not work ? > > Ceri > > -- > I probably wouldn't like you. Really. > I really probably wouldn't like you. > > 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