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From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: "Masquerading is evil"
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 16:42:57 -0600
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I have completed an IP masqerading adaptation
to the user mode ppp program distributed with
FreeBSD. The software may be found at:
http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html
I was intrigued by an earlier comment that
"masqerading is evil." What did this mean?
Having gone through a ground-up implementation,
I have some idea what the author of this
statement meant. My own judgment is that
masquerading is imperfect, but very useful
in certain situations.
If you send any e-mail to me, please be
advised that I will be on business travel
for a while and may not be able to respond
very quickly.
Charles Mott