From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 6 18:21:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA16118 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 18:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA16108 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 18:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA16063; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 02:21:17 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199709070121.CAA16063@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chuck cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Masquerading IP addresses In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Sep 1997 11:56:40 EDT." <199709061556.LAA00362@daisy.crtb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 02:21:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. > > TIA.. Chuck Just add the -alias switch to ppp. Check the docs for details. -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....