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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.



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