Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:42:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Jim McGeever: FreeBSD and the internet] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807271739180.2941-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807241910.PAA25910@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote: > ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- > Message-ID: <19980724182918.10709.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> > Received: from [206.52.116.245] by send1e; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:29:18 PDT > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > From: Jim McGeever <mcgeever@yahoo.com> > To: wollman@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD and the internet > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:29:18 -0700 (PDT) > > I have just come across FreeBSD and was wondering if it does Network > Address Translation (NAT) and if so can it handle invalid host TCp/IP > configurations. If not is there a developer out there you could put > me in touch with who may be able to develop this feature. Yes, NAT is supported. You can't ``fix'' problematic configurations at the router end, usually, but that's what DHCP is for. :-) > Basically i have a hotel and would like to install a system that would > let guests use their own laptops in their rooms to connect to the > internet via a T-1. If they are configured for DHCP this is not a > problem, as any NT server can do it. However a lot of laptops are > configured for static IP addresses. I would like for the server to be > able to recognize these or any invalid configurations and do some kind > of translation that would allow them to access the web without having > to change their own configurations. The problem is distinguishing real internet addresses from misconfig'd laptops. If I telnet to 128.223.200.2 and there happens to be a laptop on the local net with that number, how do you know whether I want the local net one or the one in my office across the country? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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