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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!qbert.rs.itd.umich.edu!tferris From: tferris@umich.edu (Todd Ferris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Can NetBSD do IP masquerading? Date: 5 Apr 1996 21:44:08 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4k4478$ge2@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <4ita9j$14r@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <39991@lyssa.owl.de> <4joi5a$e4@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: qbert.rs.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: : It's pathetic that I have to connect to my server via telnet or the like, : then to the net, and the only solution is proxies ? : The only bad bit about masquerading is that on large subnets, you may : run out of sockets on the gateway machine, but apart from that, I would : suggest that it's less of a "hack" than proxies ! : I would be interested if anyone is planning on adding support to NetBSD : or FreeBSD, and if not, I would be willing. Are the following assumptions : true ?: I'm sorry I can't answer the more technical aspect of the IP masking. But I'm glad to see that there is some other interest in this area. I have proxies working, but they aren't the best solution. If you are interested I have found that there is a WWW page dedicated to this for linux. They have a few kernal patches, maybe these could be the start of the netbsd kernal mods! The page is: http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ Thanks again for the interest and let us know how things look! Todd Ferris tferris@umich.edu