[techtalk] Best OS for NAT?

Caitlyn M. Martin caitlynmaire at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 2 12:30:51 EST 2000


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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