NAT & PPPoE (detailed email)

Peter Risdon peter at circlesquared.com
Fri Mar 12 09:47:54 PST 2004


Mohsin Rahman wrote:

>Thank you. I will try tun0 as my nat interface. However, if lets say, the
>modem drops the connection and the next attempt to access the internet,
>wouldn't FreeBSD assign the new ip address to tun1 and basically render
>tun0 nat useless? 
>
I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that if the 
link is dropped, tun0 will disappear, then reappear when the link is 
re-established.

>A better solution might be to let do ppp -nat perhaps.
>
It's certainly an easy way to do it.

PWR



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