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From: Ari Suutari <ari@hilti.lpr.carel.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: IP Masquerading available ?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:43:42 +0200
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Hi,

I'm using a small ethernet with two hosts at home. 
From my FreeBSD machine, I have a PPP link to office
at work, which I use to access internet. I have been
wondering about how to enable routing from the second
machine at home to internet via FreeBSD & ppp. Currently
I have been using cern httpd with proxy access and
it works fine. I also know that "socks" could be used.

However, I noticed that there is a thing called
"ip masquerading" in Linux. I haven't tried it and
don't know if it works, but I like the idea. As far as
I understand, masquerading makes all hosts in my local
network to look as a one, big, active host to PPP side.

Has anybody any experiences on masquerading ?
Is such thing available for FreeBSD ?
If not, is someone going to port it to FreeBSD ?

	Ari S.

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