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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP Masquerading in user PPP? Date: 10 Jul 1996 00:59:14 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ruv92$4a1@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960708224558.170A-100000@darkstar> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960708224558.170A-100000@darkstar>, Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> wrote: >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)? Possibly, but a better way to do this is to run "socks" on the gateway machine (so I'm told). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/