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[studyete]

I have found in a post that

sysinstall is mostly dead.

If so, then is there any way to make FreeBSD work in such a way that it can NAT between the internet and a local network?

 

[SirDice]

If so, then is there any way to make FreeBSD to work such a way so that it can nat between internet and local network?

On the console, using configuration files. There was never an option to configure this with sysinstall(8) anyway.

 

[wblock@]

That quote sounds like me. Out of context, it sounds kind of bad.

As @SirDice says, it's not really relevant. Any of the three (three!) firewalls that come with the base system can do NAT, although I recommend PF. See the Firewalls chapter.

 

[studyete]

I understood, I should really read the whole Handbook of FreeBSD instead of trying to configure services through a tutorial. I was following a NAT tutorial where I found I needed to run ipnat.rule but I was getting some error.

 

[ondra_knezour]

(Side note - if you include the link on the mentioned tutorial which fails for you, someone may be curious enough to read it and write here, what may be wrong with it.)