From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 13 15:16:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29502 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 15:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29320 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 15:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA11110; Wed, 13 May 1998 22:15:55 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA15673; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:15:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980514001550.53205@follo.net> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:15:50 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Brian Somers Cc: Matthew Cashdollar , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log References: <199805132000.VAA00336@awfulhak.org> <11526.895095866@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <11526.895095866@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 02:44:26PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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