Subject: Re: IP masquerade
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/1997 14:06:49
On Sat, 24 May 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 1997 07:14:09 -0500 (CDT)
> "Tom T. Thai" <tomthai@future.net> wrote:
>
> > does NetBSD do IP masquerade?
>
> ...That depends on what you mean by "IP masquerade". Can you assign more
> than one IP address to an interfaces? Yes. Can you have NAT? Yes.
> The latter is provided by the IPFilter package, part of NetBSD-current,
> or also available separately for NetBSD 1.2.
What I wanted was to use NetBSD as a router with one real IP as a gateway
for other systems (win95, mac) that don't have real ips (internal use
ones). when a Mac wants to access the net, the NetBSD gateway would dial
(if it uses a modem) or pass the info thru the dedicated line.
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