Subject: Re: NetBSD and routing
To: NetBSD/i386 Discussion List <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Brian de Alwis <bsd@manumission.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/09/2000 13:40:42
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Although you're probably not allowed by your contract to run servers on
> your cable modem you can of course and you can avoid running them on the
> gatway box by using the NAT to redirect and rewrite packets to any given
> TCP service through to some internal host on your LAN (and then of
> course you can add a DNS entry pointing to your cable IP, updating it
> from your dhclient script every time it changes).

Be careful with this: Rogers@Home does check for servers periodically.
I was burned for running an older sendmail which allowed resending,
and was cut-off until I stopped all and any servers. So I instead
blocked all packets coming from Rogers. Same effect from their
perspective :-)