From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 7: 2:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19B637B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:02:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fBAEw0913849; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:58:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C14CF23.4070401@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:05:07 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donnie Jones Cc: Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD gateway problems References: <20011210100603.93607.qmail@web20604.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > Question though. Why would I want the -dynamic flag > on natd? If you're IP address is acquired via DHCP, the -dynamic flag tells natd to monitor the interface and adapt itself if the IP changes (which can happen with DHCP). If you have a static IP, you don't need this. > Also, in my rc.conf I have: > > Firewall_type="OPEN" That should be OK. The OPEN profile in the default rc.firewall has always worked for me. > And, if I don't have the entries for the pc's on my > LAN in /etc/hosts will they still be able to connect > to the internet through the gateway? Yes. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message