From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 4 10:16:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23601 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23514 for ; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 10:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08577; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:18:06 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from kuku) Message-ID: <19980404201805.50590@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:18:05 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: goldfish@value.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why natd? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from goldfish@value.net on Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:54:45PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 09:54:45PM -0800, goldfish@value.net wrote: > > What is the purpose for running natd? I don't understand. With natd you can remap packets. Practically it means, if you have an ISP and a machine through which you dialup to your provider, you can make machines sitting on your local network (ethernet in most cases) reach the outer world (internet) without the necessity to have a routable (official) network. You can give your local machines a network like 192.168.x.0 and tell them to use your gateway to the ISP (which is then running natd) to remap the packets to the IP address of your gateway host. For the outside world it looks like there is only one host 'speaking'. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message