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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:03:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: Private network & routing to the internet via PPP w/o
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960925200020.647B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9608258436.AA843668819@ccsmtp2.eccs.com>

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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com wrote:

>      What is Socks or nat.

SOCKS is short for SOCKetS, a proxying service.  NAT is Network Address
Translator.  I haven't tried NAT, although I think I will soon in my never
ending quest to gateway a lan to ppp :-)

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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