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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP masquerading or NAT under FreeBSD?
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 03:09:35 -0800
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To: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
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Mike Frisch wrote:
> 
> Is anybody running IP Filter on FreeBSD?  I am currently running a L*nux
> box with IP masquerading to allow my home LAN access to the 'net via a
> single static IP.  How do I do this with FreeBSD?  Is IP Filter the right
> tool for this?  If so, what are my limitations?  Right now, with IP

That's one way.  Another, if you're using FreeBSD 2.2-BETA or later and
your link is a ppp connection, you can simply run ppp with the -alias
flag and it will transparently do NAT for other boxes on your LAN.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project