From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 10 16:48:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA12100 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from grazzt.umd.umich.edu (root@grazzt.umd.umich.edu [141.215.69.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA12085 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:48:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mszlaga@umd.umich.edu) Received: from task.umd.umich.edu (mszlaga@task.umd.umich.edu [141.215.69.10]) by grazzt.umd.umich.edu (8.8.3/8.8.0) with SMTP id TAA27464; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:17 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Szlaga To: Peter Philipp cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP-Masquerade and NAT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Peter Philipp wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Mark Szlaga wrote: > > > I see in the faq that FreeBSD supports NAT. My question is how > > well. I am currently running Linux w/ IP-Masq on a P-200MMX dual. I am > > trying to get Linux runnig on my new gateway, a 386/SX-25 with 2x 40MB > > MFM hdd's (it's what I had available.) > > My answer is very well. I'm using natd and just recently played with the > port_redirect option. It's fairly amazing. I did however find that with > the 2.2.2-REL kernel I had problems of the kernel crashing when I used > natd. It caused a page fault, but after upgrading the kernel to a releng > after that it seemed to work fine. > Two things. Are there any good FAQ's to read about the NAT stuff, it did not say much in the freeBSD faq. And, what version would the releng one be? Thanks a bunch for the speedy reply. Mark Szlaga mszlaga@umd.umich.edu http://www.umd.umich.edu/~mszlaga/ /dev/hdb5 - 0.5Gb of spinning metal, all alone in the night... -- Unknown - scary devil monistary