Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:08:46 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Brownstone <jkirk@tigger.100acre.com> Subject: Re: DSL natd rules.... Message-ID: <XFMail.000125160846.freebsd@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001251509200.57090-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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I just a question, since yu think natd is useless, how do YOU do nat then? On 25-Jan-00 f.johan.beisser wrote: > > yes, you'll have to forward port 113 to the machine (auth).. the other > option is to make sure you have identd accessable from the natd machine. > > since i think natd is useless, and more than a little bit pointless, i'd > suggest going to find one of the simple identds off of freshmeat.net > > -- jan > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Daniel Brownstone wrote: > >> >> This is only tangentially related, but I'm using natd on my box, and now >> my Win98 machine can't seem to connect, for example, to IRC, because most >> servers won't recognize the identd function on mirc. Does anyone know >> what I'm talking about? Any solutions? >> >> >> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, f.johan.beisser wrote: >> >> > >> > i'd actually use the NAT box as a firewall, since it can do a bit more >> > than cisco's IOS can.. >> > >> > on the other hand, depending on how much protection you really want or >> > need, you might do the packetfiltering from the cisco anyway. >> > >> > IPFW or IPFilter are both really powerful tools in controlling the flow of >> > data from one network to the other. you should check both out pretty >> > extensivly. i've recently switched to IPFilter (it's slightly more >> > powerful, IMHO). >> > >> > anyhow, that's my two cents. >> > >> > -- jan >> > >> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, William Woods wrote: >> > >> > > > so, questions: >> > > > >> > > > 1 - is the cisco going to firewall, or do you want the freebsd box >> > > > to do >> > > > it? >> > > >> > > The cisco will be a REAL BASIC firewall, blocking all smb from the >> > > outside so I >> > > can run samba inside. >> > > >> > > > 2 - do you need to access the network from anywhere else? >> > > >> > > Nope >> > > >> > > I will re-read that page on natd also, thanks >> > >> > >> > >> > +-----// f. johan beisser //------------------------------+ >> > email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan >> > "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." >> > >> > >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Daniel R. Brownstone jkirk@100acre.com >> Home: (650) 631-3983 Cell: (650) 906-5310 >> ** THIS E-MAIL IS PROPRIETARY ** >> > > +-----// f. johan beisser //------------------------------+ > email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan > "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com> Date: 25-Jan-00 Time: 16:05:43 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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