DR>> get In-Joy and register it.  This provides IP aliasing, and you don't
 DR>> have to bother with stupid proxy...
 JdBP>> Which is exactly what Alec described above.  In this case In-Joy
 JdBP>> happens to be what you refer to as the "stupid proxy".
 DR> From what I read about In-Joy, it is a packet forwarder, not a proxy
 DR> server. 
Ah, I see now.  You've only seen the word "proxy" in the configuration 
notebook for Netscape, and so your understanding is incomplete.
A proxy is something that acts on behalf of something else.  HTTP has "proxy 
servers", whereby one host accepts HTTP requests from HTTP clients and 
forwards them on to "underlying" HTTP servers.  But that is not, by a long 
way, the only type of proxy ... even (or especially) in the world of IP.
In the case of In-Joy we see another type of proxy server, this time one that 
performs what is known as "IP masquerading".  In this case, In-Joy acts as a 
proxy for hosts that cannot be directly connected to the Internet (because 
they don't have valid IP addresses), communicating via TCP and UDP to the 
Internet on their behalf.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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