From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 18:11:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cr519534-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com (cr519534-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.78.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1961D1517D for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 18:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gwilburn@home.com) Received: from localhost (gwilburn@localhost) by cr519534-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA07807 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:10:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:10:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Gene Wilburn X-Sender: gwilburn@cr519534-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com To: freebsd-questions Subject: natd / ipmasq comparisons? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For the record, is there any discernable difference between NAT as implemented by FreeBSD and IP Masquerading as implemented in Linux? Is one more efficient or reliable than the other? And a related question: what's the largest number of users that can reasonably use this service on a single LAN? My reasons for asking -- I need to implement one or the other soon, potentially serving up to 100 users at a time seeking Internet access. I don't have any strong preferences, so I'd be interested in hearing the technical merits. Thanks, Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message