Why would I run named or gatd?  Isn't my ISP taking care of that?  So I
just tell my client computers that the DNS address is the real cable modem
ISP address and the NetBSD forwards the packet to the modem since it isn''t
destined for a 10.0.2.x LAN computer.  Is that a bad idea?

THanks
Keith



At 10:12 AM 7/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Keith Fischer wrote:
>
>> Anyone else have ip-nat running on a cable modem?  Just curious as to 
>> what ttype of speed I should be expecting.  Right now I can get a Win95 
>> client to connect to a web site but it takes forever and a day to load a
>>  page.  I can't tell if it is the Win client config or the Quadra 700 
>> NetBSD 1.4 bogging down.  Seems like packets just take their sweet time 
>> to get over to the Win95 side.
>
>Sounds like a DNS problem, if I had to guess.  Are you running named on
>the gateway?  Also, gated or routed would be a good idea.  Beyond that, no
>ideas.  I've only used IP-NAT a few times, and that was two PPP links, but
>when I did, it was fairly comparable to having the NATted machine directly
>on the modem.  YMMV.
>
>
>> lookup bind file
>
>I'd strongly sugget reversing that to look up via files first, unless your
>local network nameserver actually has all the local DNS stuff _and_
>caching for the rest of the world.  Even then, files should be given
>higher priority than bind so that they can be used to put in hosts that
>aren't in the nameserver or whose DNS entries are wrong or... just
>convenient.
>
>Beyond that, no idea.
>
>
>David

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