From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 25 00:06:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28702 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 00:06:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28685 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 00:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA29908; Wed, 24 Dec 1997 23:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd029906; Wed Dec 24 23:53:50 1997 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 23:50:57 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local networks->internet In-Reply-To: <199712250702.DAA28577@dragon.acadiau.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We've done it but it takes quite a bit of work.. check out the ip tunnelling daemon someone recently posted. ppp of course does it's own natd translation so that should be taken into account. On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Michael Richards wrote: > 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 >