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I need to do the same thing.  I'm looking at using the 2.2 divert
sockets and code like (or maybe borrowed from) the PPP masquerading
code.  Does anyone know if this is what Linux does?  Is there anyone
else out there who has already done this or are we exploring new frontiers?

> From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
> 
> On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Gary Roberts wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, DNEX wrote:
> > 
> > > Does FreeBSD support IP masquerading or are there plans to implement it?
> > > 
> >  
> > Yes.  It does.  Charles Mott.  Nice piece of software.  Anyways, it's not
> > a program like linux uses, it uses the PPP program.  Check it out at: 
> > 
> > http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html
> 
> 
> This looks nifty, but I'm interested in doing masquerading on a firewall
> for users on a large LAN, not dialing in via PPP.  What's the status of
> doing _this_ with FreeBSD?