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From: sdrumm@iol.ie (Stephen Drumm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP aliasing with FreeBSD 2.1.6
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 23:34:57 GMT
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vigilant@hevanet.com (Vigilante) wrote:

>I have been looking at the release notes for FreeBSD 2.2 and I noticed 
>that PPP supports IP aliasing (to use FreeBSD to share an internet 
>connection with systems it is connected to) in this vesion.
>
>I would like to know if there is any way to do this with FreeBSD 2.1.6 
>(need something a bit more stable than the 2.2 beta).
>
>If I can't find any way to do this I will be stuck with Linux (it 
>supports something similiar, but it is called IP masquerading in that case).

Check out   http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html



Regards,

Stephen Drumm
Broadstone, Dublin 7
http://www.iol.ie/~sdrumm
sdrumm@iol.ie