From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 13:43:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24887 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:43:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24870 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA02257; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:41:53 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807242041.IAA02257@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Jake Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:41:50 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: a possible NAT setup Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199807241613.MAA00409@elephants.dyn.ml.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24 Jul 98, at 12:13, Jake wrote: > this fall some friends and are thinking of getting a cable modem > or an ADSL connection and would like to access it from three computers > using a network address translator, FreeBSD of course, probably -stable. > This mainly applies to the cable modem, since with ADSL we could get three > IP addresses eliminating the need for any translating. This is what I have, but over the phone line, not cable modem. > What kind of CPU power will the NAT need for it not to be a bottleneck > between us and the internet? I have a 386DX40 I was thinking of using; 8 > megs of RAM, 2 100 megs hard drives and 2 ne2000 ethernet cards. Will this > thing be able to keep up with the cable modem? It would probably also be a > mail server, ftp server and web server, maybe samba to share a printer, > but with very little load on those services since its just the three of > us. The other machines are reasonably fast pentiums; one running > FreeBSD-current ( my machine :) ), the other two running win95. My guess is yes. I'm running a 486, and the load is 0,0,0. > What kind of network applications will we be able to use from behind > the NAT? I generally just web surf, ftp, cvsup to keep my ports current, > etc. My friends are into IRC, ICQ and network games, quake2, etc. Stuff I > couldn't care less about, but they will be paying 1/3 of the bill so... > Can they use these services without a real IP? I guess all of the above. I'm running IRC, and ICQ, but not games. > I've read a bunch of articles about setting up the network and stuff, I'm > sure I can do it relatively easily, I'm just worried they won't be happy > without a direct internet connection. Is there another package besides > ipfw that would be better suited to our needs? I don't know, I'm still a newbie. But if you want to know what to avoid doing, try reading the stuff on my website. Please laugh if you do. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message