Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:15:50 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: Matthew Cashdollar <mattc@rfcnet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log Message-ID: <19980514001550.53205@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <11526.895095866@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 02:44:26PM -0700 References: <199805132000.VAA00336@awfulhak.org> <11526.895095866@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > When I originally picked up ppp, it used this name.... when it was > > syslogd()ified, it kept the name. There's no good reason (except > > that it's now what everyone knows). > > Hey, speaking of names, how about renaming (over time) the rather > ill-named -alias flag to -nat? :-) Possibly a good idea, due to the general confusion over terminology. Aliasing is only a subset of the possible NAT forms. The library should definately have been named libnat, at least :-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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