Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 06:00:14 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> To: archie@whistle.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu, clintm@ICSI.Net, dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ip masquerading Message-ID: <199605211300.GAA14547@meerkat.mole.org>
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> How about we provide them a working tunnel device, source code for > SLiRP, which can be modified to be the type 1 socks proxy daemon, > and source code for user mode PPP, which can be modified to be the > type 2 socks proxy daemon? > > 8-) 8-) 8-). > > Seems to me that it would be less than 60 hours of work to do the > whole thing -- ~2 full weekends. > > Doing the kernel code for a Linux-style implementation in such a way > as to not screw anything up seems to be on the order of 120+ hours > (both figures include testing and documentation and control software). > > Personally, I'm not going to blow all my uncommitted time for a month > to code up something I'll never use, even if there are good, solid > religious reasons for doing so. Two months is totally out of the > question, especially since the result would be inferior. > I'm obviously missing something here. I seem to be happy with a combination of SOCKS 4.2 outgoing and TIS FWTK incoming with a single IP address on the Internet and a class C inside with no routing from the C to the Internet. Netscape seems happy, I can ftp and telnet, and I've a firewall that didn't cost all my cash. Netscape, ftp, telnet and e-mail all work from an interior WfW box, too. What's the problem needing to be solved here? What I really want, emphasize really, is to both know how Terry has 60 hours uncomitted each month for two consecutive months and how I can have the same... -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good
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