From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 14:38:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dpbox.dhs.org (dsl-216-227-100-85.telocity.com [216.227.100.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4FE37B420 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:38:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector ([192.168.0.50]) by dpbox.dhs.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g0HLs3e15534 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:54:03 -0600 From: dpuryear@usa.net (Dustin Puryear) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using natd Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:47:52 GMT Message-ID: <3c47528e.421655378@dpbox.dhs.org> X-Mailer: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I read the manpage for natd, and in fact am using it now, but still have a few questions, as follows: * Can someone better explain -deny_incoming. Without setting that option will natd just pass incoming request to the localhost? I'm a bit unclear on this issue. * Does anyone use the -log option? Is this purely for troubleshooting? I tried the -log option as an experiment, but didn't see any meaningful, for my purposes at least, data being generated. * Does anyone use -punch_fw, or do you just statically build your firewall rules? I'm not sure I see an advantage to -punch_fw unless it is simply for ease of firewall management. * Can I alter the natd running configuration without rebooting the machine? I tried killing the process once so that I coud reload and and the network on the test machine promptly went down from the remote end. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message