From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 20:53:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vail.net (vail.net [199.45.148.10]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33D742E3 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.cfcc.com (cfcc.com [204.144.216.251]) by vail.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA23287; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:48:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com (206.133.170.176 [206.133.170.176]) by gatekeeper.cfcc.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id CYDH57WH; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:56:46 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:51:46 -0700 (MST) From: Ivan Fetch X-Sender: ifetch@ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com To: Ivan Fetch , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can natd forward besides telnet, ftp, http, Etc? In-Reply-To: <20000209223951.A78747@dan.emsphone.com> 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 Hi Dan, If I may: What does vpn use if not TCP or UDP? Thanks. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 09), Ivan Fetch said: > > I was wondering where there might be a list of what natd can > > forward "automatically" besides telnet, ftp, http, Etc. More > > specifically, I am using FreeBSD 3.4-release and natd as a very nice > > gateway. I notice that one of the things which is not forwarded from > > the internal network to the internet is VPN packets sent from one of > > the win98 clients. IS it possible to have these packets be forwarded > > (I know with Linux this took some patching and such)? What else > > (real audio?) does natd have "difficulty" forwarding from the > > internal network to the outside world? > > Natd will automatically forward any outgoing TCP or UDP stream. It > only needs special knowledge of the few programs that embed IP numbers > in the data stream (ftp being the most common one). Win98's PPTP > tunnel doesn't use TCP or UDP, so it's a bit harder for natd. You can > try the "-pptpalias localIP" option, to let a single internal machine > use PPTP. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message