Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:34:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball) Cc: gpalmer@freebsd.org, bmah@cs.berkeley.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ip masquerading Message-ID: <199605210434.VAA29880@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605202354.SAA18444@compound.Think.COM> from "Tony Kimball" at May 20, 96 06:54:49 pm
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> If nothing else, I believe it is possible for a SOCKS implimentation > for Windows workstations to be done at the winsock.dll level, isn't > it? > > Windows can go suck eggs as far as I'm concerned. I don't care about > Windows. I don't care about MacOS, and I don't care about OS/2. I > care about my lawnmower, and keeping my pop-tarts in a non-combustive > state. Just wait 'til you get a taste for those strawberry sweeties > and alzheimer's sets in. Poof, there goes your house. Don't say I > didn't warn you. This is silly. You'll call into your firewall, and call your toaster on a non-routed network from there. You're poptarts aren't going to call you; at worst, they will send a "help me! I'm burrrrniiinnng!" SNMP trap to the firewall, which will trap to you. > I'm worried about the k12 using an FBSD gateway, having zero network > expertise. I want them to be able to push a button and then when > they plug in their Apple ][e it just works. Lets see you do this with Linux, which has "masquerading". 8-). > One reason for having masquerade is to allow you to offload shell > processing load from the gateway. You are promptly putting that load > back on. Garrett has his reasons for not liking masquerading, I have > mine. > > Fine, don't use it. I think it would be silly not to take advantage > of it, once it is in place, however, since it will simplify your > administrative burden. There's the rub: it's not in place. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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