From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 13:30:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA14293 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 13:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA14278 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 13:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA24569; Mon, 20 May 1996 16:29:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 16:29:54 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605202029.AA24569@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Tony Kimball Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ip masquerading In-Reply-To: <199605201848.NAA16883@compound.Think.COM> References: <199605201537.IAA09391@premise.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <199605201848.NAA16883@compound.Think.COM> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Garrett has not spoken yet -- perhaps does not read "questions"? -- > but I wonder what his reasons are. I suspect, from other discussion, > that the point would be elegance of implementation. That's pretty close. I don't want the IP processing path cluttered with lots of nasty crap to do fifteen different non-standard actions to every packet (just one---IPFW---is bad enough). Furthermore, implementing something like this would /not/ improve our reputation in the networking research community, and having worked hard to get FreeBSD accepted in one of our current collaborations, our group would not very pleased to say the least. (Part of my job description is to essentially be a ``mole'' for our corner of the research community to keep things like this from making us look silly.) So, my position is as follows: 1) If somebody wants to develop a set of patches to implement such functionality in FreeBSD, that's their business. 2) I will remain adamantly opposed to integrating same into the main source base. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant