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Date:      Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:31:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
To:        Terry Ewing <terry@dcomm.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP masqurading
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.981112163041.968A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981112121648.00a813c0@mail1.dcomm.net>

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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Terry Ewing wrote:

> People here are thinking of putting our co-located computers behind a
> FreeBSD IPFW firewall.  At the same time they were thinking of giving the
> co-located servers 192.168.x.x IP's so they can be removed if we go through
> renumbering.  We'd just masquerade the real IP to the 192.168 IP in the
> firewall.  
> 
> Can anyone arm me with a good reason why we shouldn't do this?

Because giving (paying) colocated server internal IPs is degrading the
QoS. Some UDP and other programs don't work with it.

- bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp -
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