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From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
Subject: Re: NAT (was Re: IP Masquerading in user PPP?)
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:00:06 GMT
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Tim Iverson (iverson@cisco.com) wrote:
: Starting with ipfilter will save you time, too. It's NAT is very new (still
: has a few small bugs), but it runs pretty much right out of the box. I use
: it at home to connect my tiny LAN to work and to my ISP. It's also a much
: better firewall than IPFW. Well, at least *I* like it better. ;-)
Seconded. It has more powerful configuration (matter of taste?)
it has well-working NAT, it has both "in" and "out" filters.
A new revision (3.1.0) is now beta and supports a
concept of Invisible Firewall (way cool! :) but AFAIK
this last version isn't ported to FreeBSD 2.2 yet.
: IP/filter: http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html.
: - Tim Iverson
: iverson@cisco.com
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