[1267] in linux-net channel archive
Re: IP Masquerading (was: LAN--inet & dynamic IP addressing)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael H. Warfield)
Fri Oct 27 20:42:49 1995
To: lim@csua.berkeley.edu (Lincoln Myers)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:37:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510262351.QAA27640@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Lincoln Myers" at Oct 26, 95 04:51:43 pm
Lincoln Myers enscribed thusly:
>
> Bernd S. Bentrup (bsb@uni-muenster.de) mentions the following magic words:
>
> > small LAN at home ... connected ... dialup PPP ... don't have
> > registered IP address ... Socks package requires recompiling
> > and doesn't support UDP ...
>
> This looks like a job for IP Masquerading!
>
> I've written a short man page on masquerading, available from
>
> ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/lim/masquerading.4
Oh oh... Not found. :-(
Was that URL maybe suppose to be this:
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/lim/masquerade.4
Found that. :-)
> Please oh please oh please, anyone who knows about masquerading and
> firewalling read it and tell me if anything is wrong...
Will see... Will let you know...
> Note that masquerading requires a 1.3.x kernel and ipfw, the latter of
> which comes with very recent (beta) net-tools. Last I was told,
> net-tools could be found at
>
> ftp://ftp.inka.de/pub/Linux/networking/net-tools/
>
> ipfwadm, a better ipfw, might have support for masquerading in the
> future (I'm just about to submit changes):
>
> ftp://ftp.xos.de/pub/linux/ipfwadm/
Now this would be nice. Lack of masquerading is the only thing
keeping me from even looking at the new ipfwadm.
> Lincoln
Mike
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