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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newshost.ea.com!nntp-hub3.barrnet.net!mars.hyperk.com!darkstar!cmott From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: IP Masquerading in user PPP? Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 22:55:22 -0600 Organization: HyperK a Division of Scientech, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960708224558.170A-100000@darkstar> NNTP-Posting-Host: ras15.srv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cmott@darkstar I have recently switched from Linux to FreeBSD (the Linux partition has even been deleted from my disk). An alpha-level feature which Linux had was IP masquerading, where machines on a "private" ethernet (e.g. 192.168.0.x addresses) could make connections with the outside world via port renaming. My question is this: is it structurally possible for IP masquerading to be implemented within user PPP (not pppd)? If so, I would appreciate some advice from experienced programmers on how to do this. I am looking for a small to medium sized software project to teach myself about network concepts. Thanks. Charles Mott