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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:27:10 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Marco Masotti <mc7953@mclink.it>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IP Masquerading
Message-ID:  <9602051827.AA04116@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4b11.32.19960205181733.002bf584@mclink.it>
References:  <1.5.4b11.32.19960205181733.002bf584@mclink.it>

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<<On Mon, 05 Feb 1996 18:17:33 +0000, Marco Masotti <mc7953@mclink.it> said:

> This makes possible to set up a network without an official or actually
> Internet-routed addressing scheme, thus relying on the sub-addressing
> capability of the so said IP masquerading functionality inside the router.
> The nodes being masqueraded have their own private IP network, possibly in
> the sense of RFC 1597, fully participating and communicating with the
> external connected Internet. The only restrictions is about the managed
> protocols: for now telnet and http only, ftp and more generally ICMP not yet
> or not possible.

In other words, it's a really nasty sort of proxy/NAT hybrid.

> Now, IP masquerading is true for Linux, and quite proven to work in my own
> trials, but my question is about freeBSD, wondering whether the same kind of
> support is or will be planned in the future.

Not if I have anything to do with it.

-GAWollman

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