From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 30 12:12:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C920F37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:12:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33E143E4A for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g8UJBmOo023396; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:11:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:11:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Andre Oppermann Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, jeker@n-r-g.com Subject: Re: New natd available In-Reply-To: <3D9861CA.F3225DE7@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote: > In the FreeBSD May-June 2002 Status Report we have announced a natd > rewrite to make it's configuration options more powerful and support > more ip addresses to nat to. > > The first functional preview is available here: > > http://diehard.n-r-g.com/stuff/freebsd/ > > Please check this out and test it with real traffic. We'd appreciate any > feedback about the syntax and any bugs. It'll get some more style > treatment before declaring it for full public consumption. > > Next in row is the tcphostcache in a couple of days. After that the new > routing table is coming. Andre -- This work is very exciting. For those of us tracking the SMPng locking of the IP stack, I'm particular interested in making sure that the new implementations are locked down using SMPng primitives, and their potential impact on removing Giant from sections of the stack. I know that the routing code is one area where we're currently deficient... Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message