hmmmnnn... doing NAT on linux didnt change that much since a few years back... the *bsd way is definitely much, much easier... but then again, i think linux is way ahead on the desktop front... but still needs to learn a few tricks from *bsd when it comes to things like these... *bsd's are still a sysadmin's best friend...

now, if only the current crop of popular inexpensive colo's would start offering Freebsd 5.3 based servers... so far its still 4.x series on cihost, ev1 and the like.... and as of now 4.x is not that too happy with java's 1.4 or 5.x series...