From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 10:58:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13626 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA13605 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18928; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:57:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA07812; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:18:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810201118.MAA07812@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Hunt cc: Victor Aker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Masquerading support under FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:09:17 PDT." <19981018180917.A18973@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:18:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:01:09PM -0700, Victor Aker wrote: > > > We have a linux server running, among other things, IP Masquerading. > > We would like to switch back to FreeBSD, but we have become rather > > 'dependant' on IP Masquerading. Does FreeBSD support IP Masquerading? > > Will it ever support it? > > Yes; we call it Network Address Translation, and it is provided by the > natd(8) program. You may want to check out the manual page and mailing > lists at www.freebsd.org, now that you know the term we use. I specifically referred to libalias as ``masquerading'' in the FAQ so that people would be able to successfully search for this... I guess reading/searching the FAQ is deprecated these days ! > -- > Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property of matter. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message