From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 20:03:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA00447 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:03:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA00415 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00656; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:03:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: Private network & routing to the internet via PPP w/o In-Reply-To: <9608258436.AA843668819@ccsmtp2.eccs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com wrote: > What is Socks or nat. SOCKS is short for SOCKetS, a proxying service. NAT is Network Address Translator. I haven't tried NAT, although I think I will soon in my never ending quest to gateway a lan to ppp :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major