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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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