The NATural - Mac OS X Server NAT GUI Configuration Tool

Here's one for all the Mac OS X Server sysadmins out there. The GUI tools Apple gives us in Mac OS X Server for configuring NAT suck. They basically allow you to toggle on and off NAT and portfowarding and that's about it. Any other changes need to be made manually in the natd.plist file.

Jamie Griffin has written a GUI tool called The NATural for configuring the Network Address Translation (NAT) settings in Mac OS X Server. It's still in beta, but looks great! I've tested this on my own server and it seems to work fine. I love that I can save my port configurations instead of having them overwritten all the time. Configuring your NAT settings in Mac OS X Server is now as easy as configuring the firewall. Most excellent.

The NATural requires Mac OS X 10.4 Server or later.