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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:46:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Wayne G Boyd <wayne@jcegroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP Masquerading Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312144602.17791T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803121918.TAA00278@jce.wintermute.co.uk>

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On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Wayne G Boyd wrote:

> I am attempting to setup IP Masquerading using the -alias switch on 
> the user ppp program (as described in the hand book).
> 
> All the PPP stuff  on the FREE BSD box has been working for a few 
> months now, and I have been using squid as a proxy for the other 
> machines on the ethernet we have. 
> 
> However, I need software who's services are not supported by squid to 
> work on the subnet machines. So I thought I would use IP Masquerading 
> instead.  I have used the -alias switch on the PPP program, and I 
> have set the GATEWAY flag in rc.conf to YES.  Ping, FTP, web, and 
> telnet all seem to work fine. But I was wondering if you know of any 
> reason why other software which uses the net might not work.
> 
> The software I am trying to get to work is a thing called net2phone. 
> It is supposed to allow the use of your PC as a telephone.

You may need to teach the alias filters on ppp about the ports your
program is using.  ICQ has the same problem.  See
http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html or email brian@freebsd.org for info.

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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