Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:42:27 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Cc: mc7953@mclink.it, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP Masquerading Message-ID: <199602060112.LAA10098@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9602051827.AA04116@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Feb 5, 96 01:27:10 pm
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Garrett A. Wollman stands accused of saying: > > In other words, it's a really nasty sort of proxy/NAT hybrid. Yup. We've been through this before. Nobody in their right mind would try to do i. >> 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. Damn right. Install the socks proxy on the gateway and use a private net locally. It would be nice if socks was in the ports collection, but every time someone makes a port of it it gets knocked back, which is stupid, becuase it works very well. After all, 99% of the people in this situation just want to run Netscape on the other machine. > -GAWollman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[
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