From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 22:50:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA03233 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:50:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03228 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:50:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA24604; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:32:46 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603180702.RAA24604@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: IP packets To: jagnew@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (H. Jared Agnew) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:32:46 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603180603.BAA15480@vtaix.cc.vt.edu> from "H. Jared Agnew" at Mar 18, 96 01:03:10 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk H. Jared Agnew stands accused of saying: > > I need to masqurade packets for a lan network. I'm connecting with ppp to my No, you don't. You think you need to. What you actually 'need' is a SOCKS proxy server running on the gateway. IP masquerading is _evil_. > --- Jared -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[