From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 2:30:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A6437B491 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 02:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14OGzs-0000MW-00; Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:29:48 +0000 To: "Josh Paetzel" , "Cliff Sarginson" , , From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: ppp packet filtering Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:29:48 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.25.251 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Personally I use natd and ipfw if I have a static IP to deal with. Interesting, may I ask why ? I have a static IP (but only a DOD modem connection) Cliff If I > am dealing with a dynamic IP I use ppp -nat and packet filtering. I would > use ipfw with dynamic IP, but I haven't figured out a way to deal with the > dynamic IP, so I belive that ppp filtering is the only recourse that you > have. > > As far as documentation and so forth, there isn't IMHO a lot of info out > there > on the packet filtering abilities of ppp. The man page is great, but most > people > read the man page to get ppp working, and never realize that it's about 50 > pages > long. :) I've met a lot of people that didn't even realize that ppp could > do packet > filtering at all. > > Josh > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message