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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
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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/