We use OpenBSD to do our firewalling and NAT. We do 1:1 mappings with it
and it works very well. The IPF HowTo is VERY good and explains it all
well.
Jason
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From: Caitlyn M. Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Kath; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Best OS for NAT?
Hi, everyone,
>
> FreeBSD or OpenBSD would be best for this. OpenBSD is arguably the most
> secure operating system around and FreeBSD is very secure out of the box
> and has ipnatd which does an excellent job for NAT.
Jumping in this thread a bit late...
It should also be pointed out that ipchains does not offer a true 1:1 NAT,
and dealing with inbound traffic to multiple servers and/or subnets can be
problematic. This problem is resolved with netfilter, which comes with the
2.4 kernel, but compared to the 2.2 kernel, BSD is still the better choice.
Regards,
Cait
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