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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:53:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>
Cc:        Will Downs <rbi@techzone.cx>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipnat port rdr question.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904211152590.27954-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990420155801.074f6c80@mail-r>

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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, 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.

Well, I run the other way: I use natd since I've never had ipfilter work
on any release; the kernel patches don't build.  ipfw/natd is controlled
through rc.conf.

Doug White                               
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