From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 09:50:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08557 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08552 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:49:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA00944; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:49:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: dkite@icomnet.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Address Translation In-Reply-To: <199702211932.LAA08254@websgi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Doug Kite wrote: > I read on a newsgroup somewhere recently that FreeBSD has kernel > support for ip address translation. Is this true? > > Can FreeBSD be used to build a NAT box that would support static > address translation, in order to allow incoming services? I don't know about kernel support, but the IP Filter package (which may be shipped with the system in future releases, judging from the commits) is capable of NAT functionality. You can install it as a port or package on currently available versions of FreeBSD. I'm not familiar with IPFilter's innards, so you'll have to ask the list for technical details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major