From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 10:28:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA15458 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15453 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:28:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA04116; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:27:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:27:10 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9602051827.AA04116@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Marco Masotti Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP Masquerading In-Reply-To: <1.5.4b11.32.19960205181733.002bf584@mclink.it> References: <1.5.4b11.32.19960205181733.002bf584@mclink.it> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant