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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP Masquerading possible? Perhaps transparent proxies?
Date: 4 Mar 1997 17:25:37 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5fgpbn$b7d$4@easystreet03>,
tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) writes:
> In article <5f637n$n93@news.gvsu.edu>, behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) says:
>>
>>Hi all, I'm torn. :)
>>
>
>>
>>Is there ANY way (perhaps version 3.0 of FreeBSD?) that I can get FreeBSD
>>to do a functionally equivalent thing, both here and at work. Ideally, I'd
>
> IP masquerading is part of the kernel changes in version 2.2, install
> the ipfw program and the /etc/sysconfig has entries on how to do it.
>
> FOr version 2.1.7 and lower, you have two choices: if you just need
> masquerading behind a ppp interface, Charles Mott has a set of patches
> and software up on his web site to do it at:
>
> http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html
>
> otherwise if you need
> network interface-to-interface translation you have to recompile the
> kernel and add it in using software up on
>
> http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html
>
> I'm facing the same problem myself, and I even tried out ipfilter, but
> the ruleset language is awful. Also, I'd be concerned about putting
> a lot of work into it and not being able to carry it forward to newer
> versions of FreeBSD. I'm currently waiting for 2.2 to go gold.
Also on Charles Motts site is the natd program (soon to be part of
-current). It sits on an arbitrary IP or interface and does all the
nice things that Charles Motts stuff does (using the same code).
It's written by Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi>, and works
with 2.2 and 3.0.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !