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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP Numbers
Date: 2 Mar 1995 05:15:41 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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crawdad@munin.fnal.gov (Matt Crawford) wrote:
] > Jason M. Vanick <jason@gagme.wwa.com> wrote:
] > > If the freebsd talks to the outside world (199.89.229.1), I want
] > > it to identify itself as 198.51.252.1... is this possible?
] Peter da Silva sez:
] > IP numbers belong to interfaces, not hosts. You have a dual homed host.
] > When it talks on a given interface it will identify it as that interface.
]
] Well, it's possible to code an application such that the packets it
] sends have a source address corresponding to the interface of your
] choice -- see bind(2) -- but it's probably not worth your while to
] hack every program you've got to do that.
Use the IP tunnel device. Two instance of it, in fact.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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