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#! rnews 2003 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.greatbasin.net!usenet From: "Chas Breese III" <subrat@greatbasin.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PPP--->Proxy Arp, IP Masquerading, Aliasing. IT WORKS!!!! Date: 16 Oct 1996 08:19:52 GMT Organization: Who? Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <01bbbb3a$cf9a16e0$0200000a@autonomy.reno.nv.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: autonomy.reno.nv.us X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Just a really BIG public thank you to Stephen Drumm! YOWZA! I've been working with FreeBSD 2.1-R on one machine, Win95 on another, trying to get *anything* to proxy for the Win95 machine through fBSD. After incredible amounts of time in the user PPP, PPPD, arp man pages, route man pages, gated man pages, and reconfiguring my kernel with 'ARP_PROXYALL' enabled, nothing worked. Stephen Drumm's link to the aliasing drop-in: http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html did the trick! EVERYTHING works... I work for an ISP and we've had a lot of requests from business and private users of BSD to be able to connect their LAN to the 'Net, with minimal to no disruption of current configuration, so I set to work at home with two machines. The aliasing even works with strange port clients like the Win95 game 'Subspace' by Virgin. I haven't tried Quake yet, though... :^) I'm glad I went through this for the 28.8 PPP connection: I know that fBSD's PPP compression is mucho more compatible/faster than MS's '95 Dial-Up Networking. Plus, my ISDN should really be pumping for even another computer in the house, soon... :^) Thanks! Chas Breese III, Systems Engineer http://www.greatbasin.net/~subrat Great Basin Internet Services subrat@greatbasin.com Voice:702/348-7299 Fax:702/348-9412 "Wherever you go in life, there you are." -B. Banzai