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From: dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proxy IP addressing
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 95 19:11:50 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
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In article <nbOLLzJ@quack.kfu.com>, nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote:
>What he could do is run slirp on the machine with the SLIP connection.
>slirp could run across a serial line to the WFWG machine running trumpet
>or something. That gets you a lot of the way there. An even better idea
>would be to have slirp run at the ISP. slirp understands having lots
>of IP addresses on the PPP side of the link. It is even conceivable
>to gate two entire Internets together with slirp. :-) This presumes
>that he has a shell account at his ISP instead of a PPP account,
>though.
>

				Cheers,

				Dan Ts'o
				Division of Neuroscience
				Baylor College of Medicine
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