Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:35:00 -0600 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: "Julian C. Dunn" <julian.dunn@Matrox.COM>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ip masquerading - such a thing in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19991223103500.011c80c0@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.19991223110444.julian.dunn@matrox.com>
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Are you using the -alias option with ppp? If so thats basically the same thing as IP masquerading, or NATD, network address translation deamon. For the linux box I think you need to install/setup IP masquerade... At 11:04 AM 12/23/99 -0500, Julian C. Dunn wrote: >This is more a curiousity question than a problem, but I'm hoping someone can >give me an answer nonetheless. Is there such a thing as IP masquerading in >FreeBSD? Or is it done automatically if I set a machine to be the default >gateway for the network? At home I have the typical setup as follows: > > [dialup] <-- PPP --> [FreeBSD box] <-- ethernet --> [Linux box] > >and the FreeBSD box is the gateway for the local network. From my Linux box I >can already access the outside world, even though (obviously) it doesn't have a >real IP. Does this mean FreeBSD is automagically doing IP masquerading? My >friend asked me this because he has the same setup, but his gateway box is also >a Linux box, and he [thinks he] has to explicitly install masquerading on it. >I'm wondering if that is necessary at all, or if he could just set the clients >to use the Linux box as a gateway like I did with FreeBSD, and be done with it. > >- Julian > >-- >Julian C. Dunn <julian.dunn@matrox.com> >ASIC Validation Group, Matrox Graphics Inc. >Tel: (905) 944-4900 x7006 Fax: (905) 944-4909 > >istream >> ostream >> "We all scream for ice cream"; > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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