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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Thank You Charles Mott (cmott@srv.net) Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:07:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <56r4oe$3sr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <stanbE0xyrF.Eyv@netcom.com> <56mis9$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de> <stanbE10zzt.6Gx@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: > Excuse me. I messed up on terminology here. What I was speaking about > was IP Masquerading (sp?). Ah, that's something different... and as i understand it, the opinion about whether it is a useful or an ugly hack are somewhat, ähem, widespread. I don't believe it will be by default available in FreeBSD since there are too many opponents, but it's quite possible that it might be available as an add-on product. (I have absolutely no clues about its current status, sorry.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)