Re: Status of firewalling/NAT on Hurd
* [Richard Watson]
> gateway/firewall to my home network. The box is a 466Mhz Celeron
> currently running Debian GNU/Linux and doing NAT for the network. So
> my question - can the Hurd do simple firewalling/gateway duties?
Not that I'm aware of. The standard supports only one network
interface, and I don't believe pfinet supports NAT.
> If so where can I find out about it? Or would I be better off finding
> another machine?
I think you would. (however, I'm sure any work you do towards adding
routing and NAT capabilities to the Hurd will be much appreciated :)
> I did wonder about running it under vmware - has this been done yet?
It has been tried, but if you read the archives, you would find that the
Hurd developers take the same attitude towards vmware as Alan Cox takes
towards the nvidia binary kernel modules, which is mostly "It's closed
source, so we can't debug it. Go ask your vendor if there are
problems".
If you want help from the list members you will be better off finding a
computer made from hardware.
Oystein
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