From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 22:52:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4FA151BA for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:52:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990421055201.QAKG5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:52:01 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Doug White , Will Downs , Ludwig Pummer Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 17:50:13 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: ipnat port rdr question. Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <4.1.19990420155801.074f6c80@mail-r> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990421055201.QAKG5596385.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Apr 99, at 16:01, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > At 01:25 PM 4/20/99 , Doug White wrote: > >On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Will Downs wrote: > > > >> I'm currently attempting to setup a FreeBSD firewall (running > >> 3.1-RELEASE), i'm using ipnat to do network address translation. I have > >> several *nix boxes behind the firewall, that all access the network > >> perfectly using NAT. > > > >Excuse the question, but what is ipnat? FreeBSD ships with natd. > > ipnat is the ipfilter version of natd for ipfw. It ships with 3.X and up. > > Dan Langille of www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd uses ipnat because he > couldn't get natd to work for him. I could get natd to work for me. It just didn't do what I wanted. I've also found ipfilter to be very robust and feature rich. Far more than is needed for a site such as mine. I reckon it's better suited to big industrial strength sites as opposed to home nets like mine. That said, I like it and it's my tool of choice for NAT and packet filtering. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message