From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 11 03:48:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA16973 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:48:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA16968 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 03:48:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from ponds.dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA02122; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 06:48:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.dignus.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA04619; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 07:06:02 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) id GAA12438; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 06:54:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 06:54:04 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199711111154.GAA12438@lakes.dignus.com> To: joe@via.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP MASQUERADING? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > A customer of mine uses Linux as a 'virtual console' for a farm > of sun workstations. He clains that the FreeBSD multiport serial > card drivers will not allow a break to be sent to the serial ports > on the card. Is this true? > > Also, they use linux for a firewall. They clean that FreeBSD cannot do > IP masquerading. Is this true? > > -joe > I don't believe the first one to be true - I suppose it would depend on the multiport serial cards (but if the hardware can do it, and we have the driver; we can do it.) As far as the IP masquerading goes; FreeBSD does it splendidly. The NAT (Network Address Translation) routines are available for almost all versions of FreeBSD; and became part of the system for 2.2.5. I use it for everything, including this mail you're reading. - Dave Rivers -