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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
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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/