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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mtu.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP Masquerading / pppd question. Date: 5 Jun 1997 16:57:11 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5n6r57$nfg@news.gvsu.edu> References: <56C9CA986E73CBFD.44AB054E609535D9.884CF6F4EEE1F07B@library-proxy.airnews.net> <3395EAA5.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5pcu43.jjv.sbirn@softworx.netmedia.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42459 Steve Birnbaum (sbirn@security.org.il) wrote: : On Wed, 04 Jun 1997 15:22:29 -0700, <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: : >You need to upgrade to FreeBSD 2.2.2 and use ppp's -alias option. : >You can't do what you want to do with 2.1.5. : The upgrade isn't required. Someone released patches to the : user ppp program that handled the masquerading. I was doing : this back around Oct with 2.1.x. I tried to find the URL but : it looks like I lost it. The name of the file is ppp+pktAlias something. That should help out when looking for it. It might have been in the xperimnt directory but I do'n't recall exactly. : Since when is recompiling one program less desirable than upgrading : the entire OS just to obtain one feature? No offence, but that : sounds like a Microsoft-ism. Too true. However, this isn't to say upgrading to 2.2.2 wouldn't be worth it, I'm *very* happy with both my 2.2.2 systems. -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/