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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mitch James <mitch@hardware.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Private network & routing to the internet via PPP w/one
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960924190605.7937C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199609250155.SAA12427@dns2.noc.best.net>

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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Mitch James wrote:

> > Question:  Are the private LAN's IP addresses Internet-legal?  If yes, you
> > should be able to enable gatewaying in /etc/sysconfig and all should be
> > well.  If not, you'll have to use SOCKS or NAT as a proxy server.
> 
> Not sure if the private network RFC 1597 IP's  192.168.x.x are 
> concidered legal.  I've set up my private network using this series 
> of IP's.  The Win95 machine can telnet into the BSD box just fine and 
> then out. I want to be able to have my office use the Windoze 
> programs to shield them from a real OS. ;-)

No.  192.168 is a private-use-only ip.  So this means that you'll have to
convert it to something your upstream provider can deal with using SOCKS
or NAT.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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