From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 2: 7:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2222837B6ED; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 02:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id MAA57745; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:07:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:07:06 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Jeff Lush Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: natd -dynamic question Message-ID: <20000217120706.B45267@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Lush , questions@FreeBSD.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Ivan Fetch on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:28:00AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please don't cross-post] On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:28:00AM -0700, Ivan Fetch wrote: > Hi, > The -dynamic option basically watches for IP address changes on your > "public" interface so that natd can make > appropriate changes in it's address translations. This is exactly what > you want for a DHCP address, which will probably change from > time-to-time. If the dhcp address changes and you do not use -dynamic, > natd will still be trying to forward using the old dhcp address. > In -current and 3.4-STABLE it also tracks "-interface"'s MTU. [...] > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jeff Lush wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I would like to try setting up natd/ipfw for use behind a DHCP server, and > > was wondering what the -dynamic option for natd did? Any ideas would be > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jeff Lush -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message