From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 21:12:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA29120 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29099 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA07677; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:09:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: M C Wong cc: questions@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: All-in-one FreeBSD-based gateway ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:50:03 EST." <199609180350.AA215608604@hp.com> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:09:10 -0400 Message-ID: <7674.843019750@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk M C Wong wrote in message ID <199609180350.AA215608604@hp.com>: > Hi, > I wonder are there any efforts on FreeBSD to make it a very > strong competitor against commercial routers (eg Cisco) in the > following areas, and preferably all in one single FreeBSD box: > 1) Novell connectivity to the Internet, ie route IPX backbone > traffic to TCP/IP world and does NAT with one public IP address. > Preferably working with any types of interface, serial, leased, > ISDN etc. Are you wanting IPX translated to IP or IPX encapsulated in IP, transported to the remote end, and then de-encapsulated? For the latter, there is support in the -current IPX implimentation... > 2) PIX-like VPN encryption on the NAT'ed outbound packets. I was toying with something to do something like this, but I'm now in the US, which kinda restricts what I do :-( Damned ITAR. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info