[SunRescue] Slightly OT: NAT with Solaris

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Tom wrote:

> I've got a SparcStation LX that I want to replace a failing old PC with. 
> Trouble is, the PC runs linux and does NAT between my home LAN and my dialup 
> link.
> 
> Anyone know of a way to do NAT with Solaris? The LX runs Solaris 7 (and no, 
> I'm not going to run *BSD or Linux on it - there are some extra toys in the LX 
> I need, and support outside Solaris is pretty poor for them).

Check out ipfilter by Darren Reed.  It does fairly sophisticated NAT and
IP filtering, by far the best I've seen outside of some specialized
hardware systems.

-James