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From: dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Ip Masquarading
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 19:15:33 GMT
Organization: The Rockefeller University
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In article <5grvqk$l71@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>,
   brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote:
:In article <3330d809.536023@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
:	pavlidis@ibm.net (Savas Pavlidis) writes:
:> Does the FreeBSD IP Masquerading? If yes, can I do the following:
:> Get dynamically an IP address from an ISP, then use addresses from
:> 192.168.1.xxx for example to client PC's. These addresses should be
:> given dynamically to client PC's.
:
:Yep.  There's an example in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.samples - the pmdemand
:label (if the label is "pmdemend" (misspelt), your version is too old).

	Does it work for non-PPP connected clients, like clients connected
with direct Ethernet, say behind FreeBSD acting as a firewall
(double-headed) ?
	Thanks.

				Cheers,

				Dan Ts'o
				The Rockefeller University
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