[techtalk] Best OS for NAT?

[Angela Nash]

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Caitlyn M. Martin [mailto:caitlynmaire at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:31 AM
To: elainep at imall.com
Cc: Kath; techtalk at linuxchix.org
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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