Subject: Re: sun sparcstation firewall
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Michael Wanka <Tom@Wanka.at>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/10/2002 14:58:58
Hi,

On 10 Oct 2002 at 16:14, Szekeres Szil rd wrote:
> Soonly I will buy a Sun SPARCstation 2 with two ethernet interfaces.
> According to the issue, I'm in doubt. Will this machine work for me as
> a firewall? My case is the following: Share the ADSL connection with
> the whole network. I want to use NAT to share this connection. My
> problem is that the issue "says" to me, that regardless of how many
> interfaces I have in my SPARCstation, the same MAC addrecc will be
> given and used. Will the NAT solution work in this case? If not,
> please help me to implement this network solution other way. I want to
> install NetBSD1.6 on the machine.

AFAIK NAT translates IP addresses, not mac addresses. SO it should 
not be a problem for you.

hth

mike