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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news5.ner.bbnplanet.net!news3.near.net!yale!yale!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux Date: 4 Sep 1995 07:48:44 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 49 Message-ID: <42eb0s$ib0@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <425l95$85v@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <427lu4$cn8@felix.junction.net> <DE8wxz.H4C@midway.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <DE8wxz.H4C@midway.uchicago.edu> spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu writes: > >Recently I posted a question in this newsgroup. I asked whether NetBSD >had kernel support to do ip tunneling and masquerading. I have not Hmm, 'masquerading?' Do you mean having multiple ip addresses for the same interface? If so: # ifconfig ed0 alias 10.1.1.1 As for tunnelling... I'm not sure what you mean. Are we talking about 'term' with proxy sockets? Or ppp over a shell account? Or running ISO over IP? >gotten a single response to this post, nor have I seen any follow ups. I never saw your post. >I HAVE, on the other hand, seen probably a dozen if not more posts >regarding "BSD vs. Linux". I have two things to say about this Perhaps the questions proposed by the "BSD vs. Linux" person were clearer and everyone replied? :-) >so-called "BSD vs. Linux Debate" (a) in Linux newsgroup someone would >have answered my question (I have had MANY such questions answered the Uhmm, yeah? >same day I post) (b) Linux DOES support ip tunneling and masquerading >(and as far as I can tell NetBSD doesn't. I've looked at the Hmm, if I am understanding 'masquerading' right, a simple 'man ifconfig' would show you the 'alias' option. >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. For you, perhaps not. Everyone is their own Judge Dredd. Perhaps a polite followup post explaining your questions more clearly would be a better course of action next time. -Andrew -- ============================ Real 32bit multi-tasking UN*X System Andrew Gillham | TCP/IP,NFS,PPP,4.4BSD-lite,multi-user gillham@andrews.edu | i386,sparc,alpha,mac68k,amiga,others LAN/WAN/NW/UN*X specialist | ---> http://www.NetBSD.org <---