From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 14:35:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CFC16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34F143FB1 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003111922350701300mljcfe>; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:35:07 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id EF4073A; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:35:06 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Peter Elsner References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031119100326.01b651d0@mail.sri-software.com> <20031119152148.066cde03.kitlists@hotpop.com> <6.0.1.1.2.20031119152457.01be3cd8@mail.sri-software.com> From: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20031119152457.01be3cd8@mail.sri-software.com> Message-ID: <443cckq95x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird Problem... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:35:08 -0000 X-Original-Date: 19 Nov 2003 17:35:06 -0500 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:35:08 -0000 Please don't top-post. Peter Elsner writes: > Thanks, that's my next attempt. I don't have NAT running right now, > but didn't think it was required unless I have the firewall enabled. > I usually enable that after I get everything else up and running. NAT has nothing to do with firewalling. For efficiency reasons, they are often done in the same place, as with ipfw being the way that packets get fed into natd, but they are functionally unrelated. Please read the "Network Address Translation" chapter in the FreeBSD handbook.