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On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:02:55PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
E> > D> It's been a while since the subject of ng_nat appeared on-list, I'm wondering
E> > D> if there has been anymore work done on this?
E> > 
E> > Now I'm trying to work on this. I don't guarantee any success in recent future.
E> > 
E> > The first step is porting libalias to be a kernel module. I have already
E> > patches to make it compilable as kernel module, however with some features
E> > disabled - alias monitoring, sockets, and ipfw punching. The first two can
E> > be abandoned, but ipfw punching needs to be reimplemented in kernel.
E> 
E> Why do you think alias monitoring may be abadoned?

It does logging into file. It is difficult to implement same thing in kernel.
May be it will be substituted with bare log(9).

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