From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 22:51:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA29169 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 22:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29164 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 22:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA22030; Fri, 17 May 1996 22:48:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605180548.WAA22030@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ip masquerading To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 22:48:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org, archie@whistle.com In-Reply-To: <199605180246.VAA00761@compound.Think.COM> from "Tony Kimball" at May 17, 96 09:46:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] 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 > Writing a socks client that hooks to a tunnel driver on the machine > that needs the masquerading is a better solution, and it doesn't > require kernel hacks to get there (or source hacks for statically > linked binaries, like normal socks does). And it does it without > violating the world. > > Ah, but it requires running FreeBSD on my toaster, my Amiga, my > lawnmower, in short everything I have that does IP traffic. So? And your problem is? 8-). Actually, it requires a "socks" layer in the TCP/IP code you put in your toaster. It's not like you can ROM GPL'ed Linux code anyway, which is the only place masquerading is implemented. > Sorry, but my toaster is not going to fulfill host requirements. > In order to conform to rfcs, I need something to provide masquerade > for my toaster, otherwise I will never be able to turn of the stupid > thing when I'm in Bangkok, and the flaming pop-tarts will burn down > my house. Well, feel free to write "masquerading" instead of a socks tunnel; it should take you about twice as long. No skin off my nose. You might be real pissed when you try to get it integrated into the kernel sources, though... I don't think Garrett has gone insane yet. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.