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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP Masquerade in FreeBSD?
Date: 17 Nov 1996 00:23:33 -0000
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In article <56ibgb$jgr@smash.gatech.edu>,
mdaniel@warpedportal.gt.ed.net (Matthew L Daniel) writes:
: I have not seen amy mention in any FAQ for the *BSD series,
: so I thought I would ask. Just to avoid confusion, there is a kernel
: option in LiNUX kernels 2.0.x that allows an incoming IP packet on one
: interface to be rebadged as another IP with a designated port number.
: The net effect (I made a funny..=)) is that you can make all packets
: coming into the first interface appear to the rest of the world as if they
: came from the second interface.
: I ask this because from what I have heard, FreeBSD is far superior in
: MOST </flamebait> networking.. I would be interested in seeing the
: difference between the two, but this IP Masquerading is very important in
: our environment.
ip_fil3.1.1 compiles and works under FreeBSD, supplying full NAT support
although I havn't got the ftp-data stuff working yet - I think that'll
have to proxy.
If you're looking for a "cleaner" solution,
http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html
will give you a NAT-like iijppp program, and an even cleaner solution,
socks5 (one of the ports - and maybe a package) will give you a socks5
proxy solution.
: ps/ Also, what is the status of DosEMU (or the equal) for FreeBSD?
I have a dosemu binary on one of my FreeBSD machines, but I've never
used it.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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