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Date:      23 Oct 2001 19:36:55 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Silly problem has me stumped
Message-ID:  <87vgh5naag.fsf@pooh.int>
In-Reply-To: <20011023200351.A69785@tp.databus.com>
References:  <871yjunfn5.fsf@pooh.int> <20011023200351.A69785@tp.databus.com>

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At 2001-10-24T00:03:51Z, Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> writes:

> 1.  You don't need the public address configured on the same nic as the
> private - packets to the public address will be accepted even if they come
> in via the outside nic.

I will occasionally need to connect *out* from gw1 for SSH, whois, DNS,
etc.  In that event, the packets need a public source address.

> 2.  Both ping and traceroute offer options to set the source addr. rtfm.

I already RTFM, and TFM doesn't say a thing about how to do what I want,
except for command line options of specific clients, which doesn't solve my
problem.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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