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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Address Translation
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 13:53:19 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <3hrip5.nb4.ln@shift.utell.net>,
brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) writes:
> I don't run NetBSD, but I do have several FreeBSD installations, and
> look after the user-level ppp daemon there. It should build on
> NetBSD without much difficulty, but if there are any problems, I'd
> be happy to help anyone who's willing to port it to NetBSD.
>
> If anyone's interested, have a look at
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ppp-2.2-970701.tar.gz
>
> If there are problems with <if_var.h> (this is in FreeBSD-current,
> not in FreeBSD-2.2*), I can generate an archive based on the
> FreeBSD-current sources instead.
>
>> for email, remove the junk in capitals from the address.
>> Dave Wimsatt
>
> Thanks for any interest.....
Oh, I neglected to say that ppp on FreeBSD does NAT at the
flick of a switch - all in userland ! It has some advanced
features like IRC support and RPC support (using the same_ports
option) and can redirect data to a given socket to a machine
on the internal network.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !