From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 6 09:26:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA20573 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 09:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login.bigblue.no (root@login.bigblue.no [194.19.68.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA20565 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 09:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eagle.bigblue.no (froden@eagle.bigblue.no [194.19.68.13]) by login.bigblue.no (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA13391; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 18:26:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199709061626.SAA13391@login.bigblue.no> From: "Frode Nordahl" To: "Chuck" Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 06 Sep 97 18:26:44 +0100 Reply-To: "Frode Nordahl" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Masquerading IP addresses Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Sep 1997 11:56:40 -0400, Chuck wrote: >I'm sorry that this is not a strictly FreeBSD question, but I don't know >of a forum better equipped to answer it. Neither FAQ nor Handbook seemed >to cover the subject. > >I am a poor exile with only a modem/PPP connection. Works well, but only >one computer on my home network can use it. I have a small internal net, >using 10.0.0.*/30 (:-o), but its hosts can't get to the Internet. > >What's the name of the process by which my PPP client can enable other >hosts on the internal network to get out, for WWW, ftp, telnet, ntp, or >whatever? As I understand it, a "router" in the PPP client translates >internal IP addresses (10.0.0.*) into whatever single IP address that DHCP >has given it. Hi! FreeBSD 2.2.2 includes a package called natd that does this... --------------------------------- Frode Nordahl