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From: jdavison@yoda.sdsu.edu (John W. Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP Aliasing
Date: 12 Jun 1997 20:39:11 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University
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Matt Behrens has stated:
: Aliasing has always meant, AFAIK, simply allowing an IP address to respond
: to packets sent to a different number. i.e. if you have a machine
: 10.0.0.1 and you want to move it to 10.0.10.1, you alias 10.0.10.1 to
: 10.0.0.1 and all packets sent to 10.0.10.1 and 10.0.0.1 arrive at
: 10.0.0.1. When you're finished with the move, of course, you remove the
: alias.
: Masquerading (or NAT, network address translation) is the act of providing
: a sort of "front" for a number of different hosts on a remote network that
: doesn't understand their numbers. In this example, 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2,
: and 10.0.0.3 can all use 10.10.10.10 to use services on a network that
: knows 10.10.10.10 but can't route to 10.0.0.x.
Back to the original topic, can you do IP Masquerading under FreeBSD, and if
so, where can you find good documentation on setting it up?
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