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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Ip Masquarading
Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:31:48 GMT
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In article <3330d809.536023@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
	pavlidis@ibm.net (Savas Pavlidis) writes:
> Does the FreeBSD IP Masquerading? If yes, can I do the following:
> Get dynamically an IP address from an ISP, then use addresses from
> 192.168.1.xxx for example to client PC's. These addresses should be
> given dynamically to client PC's.

Yep.  There's an example in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.samples - the pmdemand
label (if the label is "pmdemend" (misspelt), your version is too old).

> Thanks in advance. Please reply also by e-mail,
> because our news server (IBM IGN) is not behaving
> so well lately.

[Posted and mailed]

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !