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Richard Beyer wrote:

> I want to use a FreeBSD 2.2.2 box as a gateway (WWW SMTP FTP server) for
> LAN connectivity to the internet.  Is it possible to do address
> translation with FreeBSD ports/applications?

Yes, either through user-mode ppp (See http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ for
details) or via the network address translation daemon (natd).
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