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From: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: IP masquerading under FreeBSD 2.1R
Date: 24 Apr 1996 12:43:23 GMT
Organization: Dpt. Ing. Telematica
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I have two machines at home running FreeBSD 2.1R. They are connected by
an Ethernet cable and the network goes fine. One of the machines has a
modem and can connect to an Internet provider by means of dialup PPP.

My problem is that the PPP link only recognizes a single IP address as
a valid origin, and therefore I can use the Internet only from the
computer that has the modem.

What I want to do is to be able to access the Internet directly from the
other machine (the one that doesn't have a modem). I've heard that "IP
masquerading" would do what I want, but I haven't been able to locate it
in FreeBSD 2.1R. So, is it actually available in 2.1R? In any later
versions (stable, current)? As an add-on package? ...