From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 11:21:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25406 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25352 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22683; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:20:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA10834; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:49:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810131349.OAA10834@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Marco Masotti cc: Paul Dekkers , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAT vs. MASQUERADING (e.g. FBSD vs. Linux) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:20:04 -0000." <3621BBB4.284797A9@mclink.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:49:41 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Paul Dekkers wrote: > > >I've tested once nat with just loopback and it seemed a lot slower > > I agree, still a few months ago the NAT ppp was slow and buggy, > especially with some applications, one for all is Quake. ? What do you mean by buggy ? Are you talking about libalias ? I don't recall any bug reports.... > Slowness with Quake is an hard experience, you know :-) > > Don't know with linux masquerading though. > > -Marco -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message