Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:28:04 +0100 From: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r186955 - in head/sys: conf netinet Message-ID: <4968E8B4.9090309@fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660901101012icb544b1v3ff940bd39f1abb6@mail.gmail.com> References: <200901091602.n09G2Jj1061164@svn.freebsd.org> <4967A500.30205@fsn.hu> <4967B6D9.90001@elischer.org> <4967C539.2060803@fsn.hu> <d763ac660901091411x40eb8084v134f0ab2189afddb@mail.gmail.com> <49686A30.4000205@fsn.hu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901101026220.16794@fledge.watson.org> <d763ac660901101012icb544b1v3ff940bd39f1abb6@mail.gmail.com>
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Adrian Chadd wrote: > 2009/1/10 Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>: > > >> I think Julian's analysis, that this is more of an inet option than a >> socket-layer option, seems more appropriate to me, the benefits of >> portability in adopting the API used by OpenBSD/BSDI/etc seem more >> compelling. We should make sure that, if we move to the socket option used >> on those systems, we block setting it on non-supporting protocols, or >> confusion will result. In particular, Adrian's change only modified IPv4, >> not IPv6, so until it's implemented on IPv6 it shouldn't be possible to set >> the option. >> > > I'm happy to (eventually) also implement the BSDI API once I actually > spend time looking at what the difference in behaviours are. If we're > lucky, the only difference is where the socket option hooks in and the > actual network behaviour is the same. > > (Meanwhile, I think I have to go off and implement this particular > behaviour in Squid, and see if the OpenBSD support indeed does > function as advertised.) > BTW, I'm eagerly waiting for somebody to implement this transparency into nginx, which can act as a reverse proxy with built-in perl logic. :) That way FreeBSD could be used as a highly flexible transparent reverse HTTP proxy. Do you know anything else which can do that now with an easy API (accessible from high level languages like perl or python)?home | help
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