[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] Help!

[Kris Kirby]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > ipfw?
> 
> I don't believe that would do it either.  Basically, I wanted
> to set up a general masquerading pool, and then a bi-directional
> NAT for traffic for a specific host.  ipfilter has the bimap
> directive for this, but Linux doesn't seem to want to have to
> deal with masquerading out on two different potential addresses.

Silly me. What I really meant was natd(8) + ipfw. It's on FreeBSD, I
*think* NetBSD as well. I'm a proponent of OpenBSD for the simple reason
that I think they've got the right idea, if not the right attitude. Not
having the killall command really gets me though.

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