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From: pflores@phoenix.net (Paul Flores)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Building network with private IP addresses
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Date: 23 May 1995 13:14:30 GMT
Organization: Phoenix Data Systems
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Alexey Demianenko (a.d.@brc.minsk.by) wrote:
: Hello !


: My company is going to attach to its network other
: organizations to use simple IP client-programs for
: Windows (WinFTP, Netscape, etc.) there. 
: To my mind this is a very bad idea to give them 
: IP-addresses (class 'C') of my network area. 

: I'd like to give them private IP-addresses. Does
: someone know what the software I have to use to build
: such network with gateway that works with both private
: and external address areas ?

: I don't care about external hackers attack, so don't want
: to install Firewalls. Maybe the better way is a kind of 
: proxy-software or something else ? And where I can get 
: all of these ?

: As OS for gateway I use FreeBSD-2.0.


: Thanks,

Sounds like a job for BOOTP.

Provided the client's software can handle it, why not let them get one 
out of a small range of IP address, instead of asigning them all one?


Paul Flores
Phoenix DataNET
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