From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 13:24:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03126 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03094 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA19353; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:22:39 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807212022.IAA19353@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Eric Hake Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:22:42 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: NATd questions Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.19980721001331.007c0ea0@clean.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21 Jul 98, at 0:13, Eric Hake wrote: > 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. What did they say the speed hit was? I suspect it is not significant. That said, I don't know what I'm talking about. > 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? With my limited knowledge of FreeBSD, and from seeing the postings on this mailing list, I'd say that natd is very stable. I've been running it for my subnet for about 6 weeks now. Very stable. More stable than my ISP in fact. I'm willing to bet that what you can implement for free with FreeBSD will be as good as [if not more stable than] any commercial solution you can get upstream. From what I've been reading of natd and FreeBSD, your site is exactly what this solution was designed for. Hopefully you'll hear from someone with more experience and with a bigger subnet than I have. I qualify what I'm saying by adding that I'm an enthusiastic and very biased newbie to UNIX/FreeBSD but confident in the knowledge that, if necessary, I will be corrected by others on this mailing list. Good luck. And please let us know your decision and the results. -- 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