Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 08:18:50 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: me@gw.muc.ditec.de Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP filtering strawman, comments please. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960228081242.604A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <m0tripv-000Pa6C@tartufo.muc.ditec.de>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Michael Elbel wrote: > In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > > >> - Masquareda certain connections for another IP's /ports/whatever. > > >If this feature alone were the only fall-out of a firewall redesign > >project, there would be many hats in the air, I can assure you. I > >have a good friend in SF myself who's finances only allow the purchase > >of one IP address, but he has 5 machines on his home ethernet. I've > >often wished I could tell him that FreeBSD had a solution to his > >problem (and no, I'm too busy to get involved, thanks - you want to > There already is a solution - install something like TIS' fwtk or socks > to relay the connections from the other machines. I'd rather do it that way so I could dump Linux on the firewall, but I don't have the time to configure all the proxy stuff on 75 machines running 10 different OS's, about 6 different apps (some of which I don't have source for), and optimize it so that it doesn't go through the proxy server for the intranet stuff (which is actually the bulk of the traffic).
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