*BSD News Article 81579


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!xciv.demon.co.uk!usenet
From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Address translation on *BSD
Date: 26 Oct 1996 16:17:39 GMT
Organization: XCIV
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <54tdj3$8n@xciv.demon.co.uk>
References: <3270C323.1A69@ptl.com.mt>
Reply-To: paul@xciv.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: pantera.xciv.org
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: xciv.demon.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8

In article <3270C323.1A69@ptl.com.mt>,
	Denis Vella <dvella@ptl.com.mt> writes:

> I'm looking at installing one of the *BSD on an Intel platform and I am 
> interested in getting Network Address Translation going between a 
> serial dialup ppp line and an ethernet port.  Can someone suggest if NAT 
> is available on *BSD and which *BSD (without starting a war) would 
> provide the better support for this feature?

You can use Darren Reed's add-on IP Filter package, which will work with
FreeBSD and NetBSD, <URL:http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html>.

I also understand OpenBSD comes with this as standard.

-Paul-

-- 
Paul Civati  =O=  Home: paul@xciv.org          =O=  http://www.xciv.org/
London UK    =O=  Home: paul@xciv.demon.co.uk  =O=  Slackware is.