From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 02:09:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA28297 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 02:09:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.muc.ditec.de (gw.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA28288 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 02:09:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from tartufo.muc.ditec.de (tartufo.muc.ditec.de [134.98.18.2]) by gw.muc.ditec.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA16787; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:08:05 +0100 Received: by tartufo.muc.ditec.de (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Wed, 28 Feb 96 11:10 MET Message-Id: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 11:10 MET From: me@tartufo.muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP filtering strawman, comments please. Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <12977.825448070@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: me@gw.muc.ditec.de X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >> - Masquareda certain connections for another IP's /ports/whatever. >If this feature alone were the only fall-out of a firewall redesign >project, there would be many hats in the air, I can assure you. I >have a good friend in SF myself who's finances only allow the purchase >of one IP address, but he has 5 machines on his home ethernet. I've >often wished I could tell him that FreeBSD had a solution to his >problem (and no, I'm too busy to get involved, thanks - you want to There already is a solution - install something like TIS' fwtk or socks to relay the connections from the other machines. Michael -- Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de Fermentation fault (coors dumped)