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From: ezy@panix.com (Ezra Story)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: DEBATE:  BSD vs. Linux
Date: 4 Sep 1995 12:41:13 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Message-ID: <42fa79$bic@panix.com>
References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <427lu4$cn8@felix.junction.net> <DE8wxz.H4C@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <DE8wxz.H4C@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Steve Farrell <spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>In article <427lu4$cn8@felix.junction.net>,
>Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:
>>In article <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>,
>>Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>>>In article <425a9b$89r@felix.junction.net>,
>>>Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:
>
>Recently I posted a question in this newsgroup.  I asked whether NetBSD
>had kernel support to do ip tunneling and masquerading.  I have not

[...]

>I have two things to say about this
>so-called "BSD vs. Linux Debate" (a) in Linux newsgroup someone would
>have answered my question (I have had MANY such questions answered the
>same day I post) 

Poor baby.  If you had bothered to do any research you probably would've
found out that most of the netbsd's discussions are carried on a variety
of mailing lists served out of netbsd.org.  Instead, in true usenet
fashion, you decide to whine in public.  

>(b) Linux DOES support ip tunneling and masquerading
>(and as far as I can tell NetBSD doesn't.  I've looked at the
>www.netbsd.org site and waited patiently for a response to my post).

A quick grep through the man pages reveals the term ip tunneling in the man
page for mrouted.  This what you're looking for?  As for masquerading, well
I didn't find any such term.  Someone else mentioned "ifconfig alias".  Is
that what you're looking for?

>Both Linux and NetBSD are user supported operating systems.  Maybe I'm
>being hasty, but from seeing how diminuative this newsgroup is, and
>seeing how my reasonable question went unanswered, I don't think there
>is much to debate.

No, there isn't, is there?  Welp, you got what probably is the answer to
your question, but it seems as if it was a troll anyway.  Was it?

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