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From: pimin@diac.com (Paul Newhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP aliasing with FreeBSD 2.1.6
Date: 10 Jan 1997 05:54:12 GMT
Organization: Rockhead Enterprises
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In article <32d5807d.5784785@news.iol.ie>,
	sdrumm@iol.ie (Stephen Drumm) writes:
>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

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

Good luck,
Paul
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