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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.cris.com!news From: dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Proxy IP addressing Date: Mon, 25 Dec 95 21:55:53 GMT Organization: Baylor College of Medicine Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4bn6ml$sh2@spectator.cris.com> References: <DJs1I7.D0J@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> <4b4fda$8tt@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <nbOLLzJ@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc1-fddi.cris.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 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. I would like to do this too. However, the ideal would be that the connection between the FreeBSD machine and the WFWG could be an Ethernet rather than just a serial line. The main point is for the ISP to only think that it is feeding one IP address. Cheers, Dan Ts'o Division of Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine 1 Baylor Plaza S603 Houston, TX 77030 dantso@cris.com 713-798-3331 713-798-3897 FAX