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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!jasons From: jasons@netcom.com (E. Jason Scheck) Subject: Re: single to multiple IP address mapping Message-ID: <jasonsDz9zIz.FE1@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <53i58m$gsc@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <53r2ag$a7@anorak.coverform.lan> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:06:35 GMT Lines: 27 Sender: jasons@netcom18.netcom.com In article <53r2ag$a7@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <53i58m$gsc@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, > grohn@ozy.dec.com (Jim Grohn) writes: >> I get allocated one ip address when I dial in using slip or ppp. Works great. >> However I have several PCs, and I'd like to connect them all up to the internet >> when I dial in. I could do host based routing, but the ISP wants to charge >> more for this. Is there any software that connects up several PCs to the >> internet, but makes me look like a single ip address to the ISP > >As others have already said, any of NAT, masquerading and proxying will >work for you. But bear in mind (if you're connecting to an ISP), your ISP >only wants *one person* to use the connection ! If you want to connect >lots of people at the same time, you're breaking your contract :( How could you possibly know the details of the contract that he has with his ISP? In particular, I've never heard of a "per-user" ISP license. Why should the ISP care how many users use a connection; they only care about bandwidth. (Yes, I know, I'm assuming that the world is logical; it is a fault of mine). Jason Scheck jasons@netcom.com -- ------------------- E. Jason Scheck jasons@netcom.com (503) 627-1988 -------------------