Subject: ipnat question?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/13/1999 11:23:09
Hi guys,
I have a (hopefully) quickie question regarding IP-NAT. Is it possible to
make the other machines authenticate before allowing them to use the 'Net?
I ask because I'd prefer to drop my employer's WinNT server (IIS) which is
currently set up with the web proxy, so that when you wish to access a
remote site, it'll pop up an authentication box for username/passwd. The
district logs the users & the sites they visit, but I'm not as concerned
with that as I am with just not allowing unauthorized users to access the
'Net (elementary school). So, would I have to actually run a proxy, or can
I do it with some funky incantation over IP-NAT? If a proxy, what's
available, & what's good? One final...about how many machines could I
expect a Q700 to be able to do NAT for at once (on a cable "modem"
connection)? I just hate the crap with the proxy where I would have to
manually set up any services other than web, gopher, ftp. Since we're
primarily Mac, my options are limited to the socks proxy in addition to the
web proxy, whereas if we were WinTel, the WinSock proxy would be
nice-n-easy.


Thanks for any insight,
Mike
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