From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 09:25:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA11257 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 09:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11251 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 09:25:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.6.12/Unknown) with ESMTP id KAA22500; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:28:38 -0700 Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA14573; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:25:38 -0700 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199602051725.KAA14573@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: IP Masquerading To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:25:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9602051524.AA01251@kermit.acs.uswest.com> from "Paul T. Root" at Feb 5, 96 09:24:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, Paul T. Root once said: > In a previous message, Marco Masotti said: > > My question is: Being intersted in IP masquerading (available from the.... > > competition) > > is that planned or available somehow for freeBSD also? > > Try > ifconfig [adapter] alias [ip address] ... > IP masquerading and IP aliasing are different. In IP masquerading, one machine connects to the world via some kind of connection. It then allows the other hosts on its own network to use it as a router without subnetting. I haven't really looked at it, but I'd guess that it just uses a set of higher outgoing ports on the "router" to connect to the remote computer, and then sends packets that arrive on those higher ports back to the original sender. There's something similar available for windows as well. -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual/ "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."