From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 12:56: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finland.ispro.net.tr (finland.ispro.net.tr [212.174.120.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F37837BD28 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:55:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by finland.ispro.net.tr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA22021; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:51:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:51:13 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] connecting to a virtual ip address In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG but then how come those people who have virtual ip addresses are able to connect outside world and download files etc. without any problem? I thought somehow the servers are sending the packets to their IP addreses but through the gateway which they use. > > > My friend is behind a dialup connection which uses ip masquarading > > he has FreeBSD installed in his machine and his ip address is something > > like 192.168.1.10 > > How can I make telnet to his machine when I know the gateway address? > > There isn't necessarily any way to do so. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message