Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:59:53 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which ftpd for proxy ? Message-ID: <200201082259.g08Mxrf48969@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <3C3B733D.925BA4F2@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounded like he is searching for an > > application-level proxy, not a packet-level one. > > The natd program has application level proxy code (natd is an > application level program) that supports FTP, RTSP, QuickTime, > RealAudio, and other application protocols that have the bad > grace to pass IP address and port information over a control > link. I thought that natd just parsed the PORT and PASV commands and replies, respectively, and changed them accordingly, while just passing on everything else. That's not what I call an application-level proxy. It's a packet-level proxy with some hacks. ;-) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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