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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!battery.awod.com!usenet From: lam@awod.com (Ken Lam) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Proxy-type thing for FreeBSD Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:23:16 GMT Organization: Integrated Technical Systems Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4vli1k$b4e@battery.awod.com> References: <ADSm_srWo5@qsar.chem.msu.su> NNTP-Posting-Host: chsm004.awod.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <ADSm_srWo5@qsar.chem.msu.su>, eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su says... > >Hi people, >Yeah, I know this has become a controversial topic lately, but I hope we >could have a time frame of useful info before the flame-spiralling. >As many people, we are somewhat short on the IP adresses here. On the other >hand, most people would use only a few services. So the question is: which >options (and where) do exist for sharing the address(es) and what are their >advantages and limitations. >Ideally, I would like to have internal network (AFAIU 10.0.0.0 is >invented just for that) and have the requests to outside services to appear >as if from a normal address. Well, with IANA planning on selling blocks, I'm sure usage will become more efficient. But yes, I have deployed a number of such solutions. For many networks it is quite logical (ie. on a Banyan network to use Incognito, on a Netware network to use something like BSDIs gateway product). And similarly, using proxy services for saving IP addresses is smart and logical. Not something just to consider for firewall purposes. In general, it may even improve performance with caching being done on the proxy server for web (which is by far the most common protocol I see traversing my networks to the internet). While I haven't done this for things other than a firewall, I would assume that persons are doing this currently for that purpose. Regards, Ken -- -- --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"