From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 31 08:56:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26825 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 08:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26820 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 08:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id SAA28316; Sat, 31 May 1997 18:53:42 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 18:53:42 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: Paul cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: masquerading In-Reply-To: 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, 30 May 1997, Paul wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > >> Is it possible to do masquerading over an ethernet device? (not ppp: I > >> have an router connected to an eth) > > > >Yes, using IPfilter. > > And does it work like linux? Can I use almost every client? (also irc and > ftp works fine?) Is it still experimental like in linux or already stable? > Are there no performance tests done between linux and freebsd? I would > like to see one of those, because I'm a linux user now and want to know > more about freebsd and maybe use it as a, maybe more stable, internet > server. I don't know about the current state of NAT in IPfilter, as I don't use NAT. You may want to search the mailing list archives (on http://www.freebsd.org, specifically questions and hackers may be of interest). > > E.G. When I use a FreeBSD mashine for a http/ftp-server, and a Linux too, > which one wins the competition (Which one is more stable, which one is > faster?) I'd like to know that. I'm not going to get into this is this might start a war on this mailing list and waste bandwidth. Again, search the mailing lists... > > -- > Paul Dekkers (psd@worldaccess.nl or psd@dds.nl) > N.E.V - Nescio Ergo Valeo > Het prettige van standaards is dat er zoveel zijn om uit te kiezen > > Nadav