From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 3 11:04:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA12878 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nic.7da.nl (psd@nic.7da.nl [195.108.246.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA12872 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dolphin.psd (root@dial.7da.nl [195.108.246.106]) by nic.7da.nl (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26922; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 20:02:59 +0200 Received: from localhost (psd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.psd (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA01841; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:47:33 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:47:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul X-Sender: psd@dolphin.psd Reply-To: Paul To: Almondale@aol.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Masquerading In-Reply-To: <970602081435_-895257799@emout14.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: Organization: Me and organized? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 Almondale@aol.com wrote: >The whole main issue is that the "ping" command will probably *not* work >under most forms of IP masquerading/aliasing (don't know about NAT). It's It finally works under linux (also traceroute), even quake and other games or communication program's over tcp/ip work with it... How does NAT handle this kind of program's? >sort of interesting just what commands do and don't work when you are working >with "virtual private networks" as microsoft calls them. I think in short it >would be neat if this (NAT or ppp -alias) code could be put on the ROM chip >of a NIC! There ARE routes which can do this kind of things. But why don't people buy them? They have a small homenet and don't want to buy a huge router... The costs... And when you want to setup a free firewall to it's that easy under Linux and I think even FreeBSD (no experience with it, never ran FreeBSD than from Floppies, but planning to ...) -- Paul Dekkers (psd@worldaccess.nl or psd@dds.nl) N.E.V - Nescio Ergo Valeo Computers are like air conditioner: Both stop working, if you open windows.