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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.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: Thank You Charles Mott (cmott@srv.net) Message-ID: <stanbE10zzt.6Gx@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) References: <stanbE0xyrF.Eyv@netcom.com> <56mis9$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:45:29 GMT Lines: 53 Sender: stanb@netcom3.netcom.com j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote: >> I would like to make a public thank you to Charles Mott for his >> work on IP aliasing. >> I would really love to see this functionality added into the basic >> FreBSD system. Is there some reason that this should not be done? >Huh? >IFCONFIG(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual IFCONFIG(8) >NAME > ifconfig - configure network interface parameters >... > The following parameters may be set with ifconfig: > alias Establish an additional network address for this inter- > face. This is sometimes useful when changing network > numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to > the old interface. >Well, it's not Charles Mott's version but 4.4BSD's (which presumably >predates Charles Mott's version), but apart from this, is there any >reason why you wouldn't like to use it? Excuse me. I messed up on terminology here. What I was speaking about was IP Masquerading (sp?). The ability to allow all the machines on my local network to access internet services (ftp, htttp, ping, telnet, tracroute, etc) by using the FreeBSD machine as a gateway. As I understand it the FreeBSD machine put's it's IP address on *all* packets going to the IPS. It keeps a table of who really sent the packet, and when a reply packet comes back, it replaces the IP address with that of the real originator, and sends it back to him. This allows all of my machines to become fully functional nodes (except for unbound connection request) without my ISP sating up routing for all my machines. Which BTW they seem unwilling to do even though I have valid InterNIC assigned IP addresses, but that's another story. Sorry for my terminology error. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.