Using recycled bits, Kenneth Stephen said:
% Kurt,
% 
%       If the private network is built with ip-addresses which have been
% set aside for non-internet uses (aka private networks) such as the 10.* or
% teh 192.168.* ip addresses, none of the packets coming from those machines
% will make it onto the internet. All such packets will be rejected by the
% hardware that runs the internet. To get around this, one needs to use
% ip-masquerading.

Quite so.  I wrote the original message when I was just home from the
hospital after surgery, so wasn't thinking too clearly.  IP Masqruerading
is the solution here, and it's a very viable solution at that.

Thanks for correcting me.

-- 
Kurt Wall
Informix on Linux FAQ - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaq.html
Spanish Translation   - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaqsp.html

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