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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.rediris.es!sanson.dit.upm.es!jmrueda From: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: IP masquerading under FreeBSD 2.1R Date: 24 Apr 1996 12:43:23 GMT Organization: Dpt. Ing. Telematica Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4ll7lb$9jj@sanson.dit.upm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: gaudi.diatel.upm.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have two machines at home running FreeBSD 2.1R. They are connected by an Ethernet cable and the network goes fine. One of the machines has a modem and can connect to an Internet provider by means of dialup PPP. My problem is that the PPP link only recognizes a single IP address as a valid origin, and therefore I can use the Internet only from the computer that has the modem. What I want to do is to be able to access the Internet directly from the other machine (the one that doesn't have a modem). I've heard that "IP masquerading" would do what I want, but I haven't been able to locate it in FreeBSD 2.1R. So, is it actually available in 2.1R? In any later versions (stable, current)? As an add-on package? ...