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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 21:40:19 +0200
From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>
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To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: New natd available
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Robert Watson wrote:
>
> 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...
The new routing code will untangle the pointer mess in the current
stack by a great deal and as such make it far more SMP friendly as
it currently is. Unfortunatly I don't know if we have enough time to
put everything into 5.0R.
--
Andre
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