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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:29:48 GMT
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, <darryl@osborne-ind.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ppp packet filtering
Message-ID:  <E14OGzs-0000MW-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>

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> 
> Personally I use natd and ipfw if I have a static IP to deal with.  
Interesting, may I ask why ?
I have a static IP (but only a DOD modem connection)

Cliff

If I
> am dealing with a dynamic IP I use ppp -nat and packet filtering.  I would
> use ipfw with dynamic IP, but I haven't figured out a way to deal with the
> dynamic IP, so I belive that ppp filtering is the only recourse that you
> have.
> 
> As far as documentation and so forth, there isn't IMHO a lot of info out
> there
> on the packet filtering abilities of ppp.  The man page is great, but most
> people
> read the man page to get ppp working, and never realize that it's about 50
> pages
> long.  :) I've met a lot of people that didn't even realize that ppp could
> do packet
> filtering at all.
> 
> Josh
> 
> 




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