Subject: Re: IP/NAT questions
To: Tim McNamara <timmcn@mr.net>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/15/2001 11:30:45
Gee you don't want to do much do you. ;-)
You can do everything you want with NetBSD and a Quadra should be
able to handle it in general. One caveat is that NetBSD does not
support PPPoE efficiently at this time. Since you have a 4-port
DSL/router I would think that you would rather use the NAT on the
router rather than do it on either of the end workstations. In that
case most of your questions should go to how to set up the router
properly. Hopefully it has some way to redirect incoming http
traffic to a specific end workstation.
Assuming you really want to do the NAT on the *BSD side then you
should look at the IPFilter FAQ which is linked from somewhere on the
NetBSD.org web site. It's not mac68k specific. It gives you a *lot*
of control of what IP traffic is allowed and where it can go.
On a specific point: yes you can do NAT over a single Ethernet.
Make sure the local traffic uses a different IP network address and
everyone will ignore what they should ignore as long as nobody gets
cracked. But the NAT traffic (if you are doing NAT on a workstation
instead of in your 4-port router) winds up traversing the wire twice
which is wasteful of bandwidth. This may or may not be an issue.
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