From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 11:12:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07075 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06906 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20323; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:11:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA25399; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:35:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810161435.PAA25399@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Glenn Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -alias and natd -dynamic In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:33:47 CDT." <199810151733.MAA24456@symbion.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:35:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It is my understanding that ppp and natd are more or less the same. Upon > reading the man pages haowever, I noticed that natd has a -dynamic option for > dealing with dynamic IP addresses on the public interface. Is this option > implied with ppp -alias? If not, should I use natd instead of ppp -alias for > my Internet connection in which I am assigned a dynamic IP? If you have a dynamic IP, ppp informs the alias engine automatically - as the IP is decided. In the natd case, additional code is required to read the routing socket so that it ``notices'' that the interface address has changed. So, your answers are ``yes'' and ``no'' ;-) > Thanks in advance. > -- > Glenn Johnson > Technician > USDA, ARS, SRRC > New Orleans, LA -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message