Subject: Re: NetBSD address translation routing
To: Alicia da Conceicao <alicia@media-city.com>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/26/1997 13:28:36
I believe you are looking for NAT part of netbsd. Am not sure about 1.2 
but it's in -current

On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Alicia da Conceicao wrote:

> Greetings NetBSD users:
> 
> I've have a TCP/IP lan which I've set up with with non-routable Intranet
> IP numbers (192.168.0.X).  One of the computers on the lan is an i386 box
> running NetBSD 1.2, with PPP and no IP forwarding.  That computer has a
> dedicated PPP connection to the Internet with a static IP number, which 
> through the use of various proxies (Apache, Sendmail, Named, etc.) is the
> Internet gateway and firewall for the Intranet lan.
> 
>      Anyways, although this solution works, it is not very scalable, and
> is quite restrictive in that proxies have to be installed for every
> addition Internet service I wish to use on the lan.  :-(  To solve this
> problem, I wish to replace all of those proxies on the gateway with a
> single transparent proxy that works with address translation, so that
> the lan IP numbers (192.168.0.X) of Internet packets going through the
> gateway get translated to the "real" static IP number of the gateway.
> The Cisco 700 series routers are capable of this, but I was hoping to
> do the same with an i386 NetBSD box.  Better yet, I would also like
> some packet filtering abilites with the transparent proxy for added
> security.
> 
>      Does anyone have any suggestions on what software / configuration
> can be used to set up a transparent proxy with address translation that
> can be installed on an i386 NetBSD lan gateway?  Any help would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely, Alicia.
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