From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 00:13:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA28366 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from support.centercomp.com (root@[206.129.174.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28360 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:13:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@clean.net) Received: from stephen.clean.net (corv-9.e-z.net [206.129.174.59]) by support.centercomp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA24511 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980721001331.007c0ea0@clean.net> X-Sender: eric@clean.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:13:31 -0700 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Eric Hake Subject: Re: NATd questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I originally wanted to write privately so I wouldn't sound like an idiot in a public forum, but oh well :) Here's the deal -- I am wrestling with my upstream provider over an address plan I sent in -- it seems that they feel my request is too large -- I am wiring 90 offices now and up to 180 - 190 by the end of the year... They want me to consider NAT, and had no idea that FreeBSD had natd capability -- I sent him the URL of the man page, and he said "hey! I didn't know the free BSD community had come so far!"... At any rate -- I have checked a few of my O'Reilly books, and they say that nat has it's advantages and disadvantages as well... ("Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers", pages 237-239) -- most notably a speed hit. Here's how they want me to use it -- Router->NAT Address Pool->NAT box->Private IP space... I am wondering if the nat dameon in FreeBSD is as capable as some commercial solutions my upstream is favoring? Will it be more trouble than it's worth? Will it crap out on me with my network? How reliable is it? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?natd I have these and a few other questions, but again, I didn't want to sound like a dwaddle, but it's too late for that now... :) Eric At 08:13 AM 7/21/98 +1200, you wrote: >I'm new to UNIX but I can't imagine natd being useful anywhere but on a >network. I suggest you just go ahead and address your questions to the >mailing list. Someone will answer. > >On 20 Jul 98, at 11:28, Eric Hake wrote: > >> Has anybody on this list used NATd in a network? I have a couple of >> questions that I would like to ask someone who has implemented this in >> FreeBSD... > >-- >Dan Langille >DVL Software Limited >http://www.dvl-software.com : for race timing solutions > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message