From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 24 23:04:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA26306 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 23:04:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from relay.acadiau.ca (root@relay.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26299 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 23:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca) Received: from dragon.acadiau.ca (dragon [131.162.1.79]) by relay.acadiau.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA07866 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 03:02:50 -0400 (AST) Received: by dragon.acadiau.ca id DAA28577; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 03:02:46 -0400 From: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards) Message-Id: <199712250702.DAA28577@dragon.acadiau.ca> Subject: Local networks->internet To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 03:02:46 -0400 (AST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all; I have been sort of following the discussion on NATD. Some time in the near future I will have to do what everyone seems to be struggling with right now. Is there some way that a person can do a ppp tunnel to the server that does all the internet stuff? I suppose anything incoming would be a problem either way whether it is NAT or PPP :( Short of hacking into the ISP and setting multiple IP addresses for all our local machines is there any other way? What about this for complex-al-la complex ideas? lan ===>ISP===>other box on the outside Let's say I have control of a box on the outside with a domain I own. Would it be possible to set up some kind of ppp tunnel all the way through. That way I could set up all my machines box1.apollo.ca box2.apollo.ca etc. Each would have its own IP on the "other box on the outside" which just gets forwarded down the ppp pipe until it finally gets to the machine we want. I know the theory works... What do the practically-experienced people have to say? -Mike