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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!shift.lan.awfulhak.org!nobody From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with natd configuration Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 03:52:36 +0100 Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Message-ID: <k94cq5.cae.ln@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> References: <33C8807B.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> <5qarmm$cu6@flatland.dimensional.com> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.lan.awfulhak.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Lines: 31 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44443 In article <5qarmm$cu6@flatland.dimensional.com>, mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr) writes: > David Henshaw <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> writes: > >> My main box is allocated an IP of 10.0.0.1 and connects to an ISP using >> kermit and a pppd connection. My ISP allocates an IP address >> dynamically. > > --snip-- > >> rc.firewall contains as per the man pages >> ipfw add 0100 divert 6668 all from any to any via ed0 >> ipfw add 65000 allow all from any to any >> >> rc.local contains natd -interface ed0 > > Don't you want to alias to the address of the PPP interface? Try using > ppp0 instead of ed0 in both places. If you get a dynamic IP address from > your ISP, you probably want to specify "-dynamic" as well. Beware that > "-dynamic" had problems in earlier versions of natd, so make sure you > have a recent copy. You may also be graced with a panic.... There's a bug that can be avoided by not using VJ compression. Alternatively, ppp does the job of pppd, natd and kermit ;-) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !