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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:48:58 +0300
From:      "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how does ppp's routing work?
Message-ID:  <3770BB99.F760FCD9@prime.net.ua>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221221510.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, notme wrote:
>
> >     I have just set my FreeBSD box so that it dials
> > to my ISP on demand.  I currently have 2 Win*
> > computers connected to the FreeBSD box, like
> > the following:
> >
> >
> > ISP <-----phoneline---> FreeBSD
> >                                     _____|_____
> >                                     |                   |
> >                                 Win #1          Win #2
> >
> > I was able to use ICQ and such, but I am just wondering,
> > how does this ppp -auto -alias demand work?  Both of
> > the machines shares the same IP, (the IP of which FreeBSD
> > gets from my ISP) and both of my machines could see
> > each other on ICQ (which requires unique IPs) and play
> > online network games.
>
> You can't use ICQ behind a NAT firewall due to ICQ's totally twisted
> protocol.  If you install socks5, though, you can tell ICQ to use the
> socks5 proxy instead and it'll work fine.
>
> Every machine on a network should have unique IPs.  I'm surprised the
> Windows machines didn't cry foul when they saw one another.

He  sais about FreeBSD's IP that it  gets from ISP

>
>
> Doug White
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