Subject: Re: IP masquerade
To: Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 05/27/1997 10:52:35
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Geoff Wing wrote:

> More... interesting?  Given that I haven't really looked at ipnat (or used it),
> I would assume you could put something like this in /etc/ppp/ip-up;
> [...]

You can, but you'll need to run this as root.  (I prefer to avoid having
to run pppd as root, myself.)

A better solution might be to extend the syntax of ipnat configuration
files so that it could simply snarf the (first) IP address bound to the
interface.  This has already been done elsewhere, but I would rather avoid
that implementation because it wasn't well thought out.

--scott