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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP Masqerading?
Date: 19 Aug 1996 16:18:00 +0100
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Jamie Bowden (jamie@inna.net) wrote:
: On 12 Aug 1996, Karl Wiebe wrote:

: > jfortes@jaguar.saturn.net (Jonathan A. Fortes) wrote:
: > >Has IP masquerading ever been impllemented in FreeBSD?


: > Well, build the loadable kernel module that comes with
: > Darren Reed's IPFilter and you can have NAT ( == IP Masquerading ).


: > See
: > http://cheops.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html

: Talk about doing it the hard way.  Just man ifconfig.  It's built in.

Wrong.  Masquerading changes source/destination IPs on the fly while
forwarding packets.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....