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Subject: Re: Uninitiated UDP and PPP packet aliasing 
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> 
> I've got a small lan setup that is connected to the Internet through a PPP
> modem connection (soon to be ISDN). Anyway, a few applications (RealPlayer,
> some games) send UDP packets in response to messages on a separate control
> channel. This obviously presents a problem for the PPP packet aliasing
> since it has no idea which host these UDP packets should be going to. I can
> think of some application specific solutions, but no good general solution.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?

Check out the "alias port" command in ppp.

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