http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html has a link "Care should be taken when running PPPoE with the -nat option." When the link is followed there is a list of 29 items, only #24 appears relevant to the -nat option. Since many users would have no interest whatever in whether or not games get broken, I'd like to see this item clarified with a mention at the pppoe page that this relates to games ONLY.
Please wrap your lines at 72 characters. Thanks. dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au writes: > > >Number: 27320 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: excessively vague information in pppoe page of Handbook > >Description: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html > has a link "Care should be taken when running PPPoE with the -nat > option." When the link is followed there is a list of 29 items, only > #24 appears relevant to the -nat option. Since many users would have > no interest whatever in whether or not games get broken, I'd like to > see this item clarified with a mention at the pppoe page that this > relates to games ONLY. I think there are two separate, albeit similar, issues here. First is that the page you mention above links to a nonexistent FAQ entry. Apparently the author was planning on writing one, and made the link, but never got around to it. The second issue is that the FAQ entry about games not working with -nat is short-sighted; the issue is that software which assumes that the client can accept TCP connections won't work. Games just happen to be a good example of this. Perhaps you would like to send an FAQ addition to remedy one or both of these problems? Thanks, Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->brian Brian is our PPP guru.
State Changed From-To: open->closed The handbook has been updated. The pros and cons of NAT are not relevant in a PPPoE howto...