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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Making a ppp connection with slirp
Date: 27 Dec 1995 22:10:12 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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Message-ID: <4bsg84$u9@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <4bqj9t$13s@news.informix.com>
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In article <4bqj9t$13s@news.informix.com>,
Andy Hogben <ahogben@informix.com> wrote:
>
>What I want is...
>   Home (mini 10.0.2.15) -> ppp -> Work (mirage 158.58.29.28) -> internet

I'm afraid I have grave doubts this will work. Your home IP address
(10.0.2.15) is one of those reserved for use on private networks which
are invisible from the Internet; in fact a standards-conformant router 
will not forward packets to such an address. (This makes sense, as there 
could be machines on different networks using the same reserved address 
and how would you decide which of them should actually get the packets?).

In other words, you may be able to send stuff out to the Internet, but 
you won't get anything back.

Actually, there may be some sort of trickery involving the (ab)use of
mirage's firewall capabilities to work around the problem, assuming of
course that it has any, but this is rather ugly.

By far the best solution is to get your home machine a non-reserved IP 
address.

James
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