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Re: Need help to connect to ISP!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl V Streeter)
Fri Feb 2 10:15:07 1996

From: Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>
To: gstein@eshop.com (Greg Stein)
Date: 	Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:30:30 -0600 (CST)
Cc: Jims@glix.com, sayer@imaginet.fr, linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu,
        linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960131104449.9726C-100000@trouble.eshop.com> from "Greg Stein" at Jan 31, 96 10:46:32 am

Greg Stein writes:
> 
> Many won't provide 3 IPs.  I was thinking about the same problem for here 
> at home.  Couldn't you run a SOCKS firewall on Linux?  Then, all outgoing 
> connections would be from the Linux machine's IP address.
> 
> Would this work?

Yes, quite well.  I'm doing it here.

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Carl Streeter                     |  "I'll forgive even GNU emacs as long 
streeter@cae.wisc.edu             |     as gcc is available" --Linus Torvalds
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Ask me about Debian/GNU Linux.    |    to use the phrase 'It sucks.'" --Dogbert


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