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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.misc:72 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:1424 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:409 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:36639 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!gryphon.phoenix.net!phoenix.phoenix.net!pflores From: pflores@phoenix.net (Paul Flores) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Building network with private IP addresses Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Date: 23 May 1995 13:14:30 GMT Organization: Phoenix Data Systems Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3psn3m$5a4@gryphon.phoenix.net> References: <Pine.BSD.3.91.950523115231.24916B-100000@brc.minsk.by> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.3.232.2 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Alexey Demianenko (a.d.@brc.minsk.by) wrote: : Hello ! : My company is going to attach to its network other : organizations to use simple IP client-programs for : Windows (WinFTP, Netscape, etc.) there. : To my mind this is a very bad idea to give them : IP-addresses (class 'C') of my network area. : I'd like to give them private IP-addresses. Does : someone know what the software I have to use to build : such network with gateway that works with both private : and external address areas ? : I don't care about external hackers attack, so don't want : to install Firewalls. Maybe the better way is a kind of : proxy-software or something else ? And where I can get : all of these ? : As OS for gateway I use FreeBSD-2.0. : Thanks, Sounds like a job for BOOTP. Provided the client's software can handle it, why not let them get one out of a small range of IP address, instead of asigning them all one? Paul Flores Phoenix DataNET ------------------------------------------- The demented ravings of a Bandwidth Hungry SNMP Programer.... -------------------------------------------