Things look quiet here. But I've been doing a lot of blogging at
dan.langille.org because I prefer WordPress now.
Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related.
I am in the midst of migrating The FreeBSD Diary over to WordPress
(and you can read about that here).
Once the migration is completed, I'll move the FreeBSD posts into the
new FreeBSD Diary website.
If you are planning on doing Network Address
Translation (NAT) or IP Masquerade (the Linux term for it), then under FreeBSD 3.*,
you can easily use ipnat. This is a great little tool provided by Darren
Reed as part of his amazing packet filter ipfilter (the home page is http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/).
The following message indicates that your your kernel is not configured for ipfilter
and you will need to perform the steps outlined in the following sections of this article:
# ipnat -f /etc/ipnat.conf
/dev/ipnat: open: Device not configured
What is ipnat used for?
In simple, terms, NAT is the translation of internal addresses to external addresses.
This is commonly done on a gateway machine such as a dial-up box at home where you
have more than one computer. This allows all of your boxes to share a single
connection to your ISP. You may be familiar with WinGate
which does a similar function.
One of the best how-to guides for ipfilter (ipnat)
is at:
The following instructions apply only if you are only ipnat and *not* adding IP
Filter. The IP Filter installation process will do the following steps
for you.
