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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 14:22:14 -0600
From: cmott@srv.net
Subject: Re: "Masquerading is Evil"
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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In article <864175099.16433@dejanews.com>,
cmott@srv.net wrote:
>
> I have tentatively completed version 2.1
> (version number unrelated to FreeBSD release)
> of ppp+pktAlias, to be found at:
>
> http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html
>
> This version has ppp command level syntax
> for port redirection and static address
> translation. For instance, you can issue
> the following command in a ppp.conf file
> or interactive mode:
>
> alias port 192.168.0.4:telnet 8066
Correction:
alias port tcp 192.168.0.4:telnet 8066
The protocol needs to be specified. (I put out
this correction on my local news server, but it
did not seem to propagate through usenet too well,
so I am posting from Deja News).
>
> All incoming traffic to port 8066 on the
> host machine will be redirected to the telnet
> port of machine 192.168.0.4 on the local area
> network.
>
> Even if you have only a single dynamically
> allocated IP address (as I do), you can
> still experiment with static address translation.
>
> alias addr 192.168.0.5 0
>
> The above command will redirect *all* incoming
> traffic from the ppp host (0 defaults to the ppp
> interface IP address) to machine 192.168.0.5.
>
> Because of slight differences in the system include
> file structure between different releases of
> FreeBSD, there may be some minor problems in
> compiling. E-mail me if you have problems -- I
> want to get the #ifdef's right so that it cleanly
> compiles across FreeBSD 2.1.x, 2.2.x and 3.x.
>
> I would be specifically interested in hearing
> from anyone who has a block of addresses assigned
> to their ppp account, rather than a single address.
> There are certain things I would like to test in
> this situation.
>
> Charles Mott
>
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