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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Masquerading in FreeBSD Distributions?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 08:21:22 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Darren Henderson <mvdhend@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us>
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Darren Henderson wrote:
> Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@time.cdrom.com) wrote:
> : This is now part of 3.0-current's ijppp and will also be in the
> : upcoming 2.2-BETA (and therefore in 2.2-RELEASE).
> 
> Any chance this will find its way into pppd?  I have full time link and
> prefer to run it to ijppp but would love to have the capabilities there.

That's fairly unlikely, at least as a port of Charles Mott's code.

What's more likely to happen is that someone will make use of the IP
divert features of 2.2 to write a more general purpose NAT daemon.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project