From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 03:40:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10258 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 03:40:02 -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 DAA10202 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 03:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25807; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:38:59 +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 LAA08163; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:38:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809301038.LAA08163@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Craig Beasland cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Aliasing In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:24:03 +0800." <001d01bdec5c$37313500$0a1e21cb@superbruce.hotmix.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:38:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi there, > > I have a machine which is permanently connected to the net via a valid IP > address. I would like to set up a second machine which is connected via > Ethernet to the first machine which does aliasing for a number of machines > with IP's in the non-routable tables 10.10.10.*. I know with a dial up > connection and ppp, I can ppp -alias. Heh - I think you've figured out all the answers already... > My question is > 1) can I do a similar thing to ppp -alias using ethernet (IPFW & NATD) Yep. Natd uses the same code (libalias) as ppp to do the packet aliasing. > 2) would it be easier to connect the two machines via a serial cable and use > ppp. Marginally, but it'd be a lot slower. > 3) something much better which solves all my problems. Nope - sorry. IMHO, natd's your best option. > Any help appreciated > > Cheers > Craig -- 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