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On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:00:03PM -0700, Marc Slemko wrote: > > Right, the tradition has roots at least a few years further back > in the hack created by the "poor dialup shell account user" to allow > them to get SLIP (and, at some point, CSLIP and PPP) access to the net > without needing their own IP assigned by using a shell server they had an > account on, with it's IP address. First done in TIA, then SLiRP. > > That was... 1994 or earlier. > > And TIA is essentially NAT, implemented in a manner that would be > considered peculiar compared to today's common implementations. TIA was pervasive enough, and causing enough *problems*, that many ISPs were banning it's use, as of fall, 1994 (I can pin it that accurately due to circumstances that only existed during that period, when I was dealing with it). SLiRP was around by, at latest, mid-1995, in response to it. Linux had functional masquerade code at that time, as well, though it was a royal pain to deal with (IE, nothing has changed much :) -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [email protected] http://www.lightbearer.com/~lucifer
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