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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 1997 18:13:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        bextreme@pobox.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question: NAT?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970304181312.22528J-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199703010259.SAA02175@mail.ptw.com>

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On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Jesse wrote:

> Hello, I am curious if anyone knows of a freely available Network 
> Address Translation program for freeBSD. I currently have a single 
> 28.8 unlimited time dial-up to my ISP with a single IP#. I am wanting 
> to hook up a two computer LAN (10base-t), with a FreeBSD box as my 
> Mailhub, router, etc  and a Windows95 box as my desktop machine 
> (Windows really sucks when it comes to server software.. :) ). The 
> problme is, I need to use the internet on both machines (Server 
> software only on the FreeBSD box however). I would much rather have 
> NAT set up than try to convince my ISP to allocate 2 ip#'s for me... 
> (hard enough getting one..)

Take a peek at IPFilter, or newer versions of the ppp included with
FreeBSD include an -alias option that does the necessary translations.

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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