From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 16:59:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA13469 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:59:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13459 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 16:58:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA10098; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:42:27 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602060112.LAA10098@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: IP Masquerading To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:42:27 +1030 (CST) Cc: mc7953@mclink.it, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9602051827.AA04116@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Feb 5, 96 01:27:10 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[