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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub3.barrnet.net!mars.hyperk.com!darkstar!cmott From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PPP Masquerading in FreeBSD Distributions? Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:07:47 -0700 Organization: SRVnet, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961127181207.9864B-100000@darkstar> NNTP-Posting-Host: ras88.srv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cmott@darkstar Both in newsgroup postings and in private e-mail, the question has come up about whether to add packet aliasing (IP masquerading) to the standard version of user ppp, potentially in either the release or development source trees. There is demand among users for this function. In a FreeBSD distribution, I would suggest that it be invoked with "-alias" (or possibly "-masq") in the command line startup of ppp. That way, the same ppp.conf file and ppp executable could be used with or without masquerading. I have neither the experience nor inclination needed for submitting code to the FreeBSD Central Committee (or should I say Politburo?). For those who are interested in doing this, it is simple to merge the code with versions of ppp later than 2.1.5-RELEASE, which is the source base I worked from. C. Mott Packet aliasing software available at: http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html