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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.netmedia.net.il!sbirn From: sbirn@security.org.il (Steve Birnbaum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP Masquerading / pppd question. Date: 5 Jun 1997 08:21:41 GMT Organization: NetMedia Lines: 19 Message-ID: <slrn5pcu43.jjv.sbirn@softworx.netmedia.net.il> References: <56C9CA986E73CBFD.44AB054E609535D9.884CF6F4EEE1F07B@library-proxy.airnews.net> <3395EAA5.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: security.org.il X-Disclaimer: NetMedia pays me for my work, not my opinions. X-Lart: everyone X-Original-Topic: Nobody cares X-Get-A-Newsreader: <blink> X-PGP-Fingerprint: D0 42 AD 3B E2 7B F3 45 D7 02 63 F3 89 EA C9 B1 X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42418 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. 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. Steve -- Steve Birnbaum - System Administrator, NetMedia. Jerusalem, Israel. Work: sbirn@netmedia.net.il | Phone: +972-2-6795860 --Standard Disclaimer-- Pers: sbirn@security.org.il | http://www.vix.com/spam/ (PGP key available)