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 lucifer@lightbearer.com http://www.lightbearer.com/~lucifer