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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: New netgraph features? 
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:04:34 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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I may not have caught the drift here, but if you send meta-data
across the net, wouldn't some kind of authentication be needed ?

Poul-Henning

In message <200012212157.eBLLvAU78207@curve.dellroad.org>, Archie Cobbs writes:
>John Smith writes:
>> Well, may be I didn't said exactly what I wanted to.
>> If we use say, ksocket nodes as a tunnel, we will
>> transfer the data - ok, but what about metadata?
>> May be I should say 'to connect two netgraphs'?
>> May be this is a lost cause, but that's why I'm asking.
>
>Yes, there would need to be some extra stuff. Here are some
>quick possibilities..
>
>- We'd need to enhace the definition of a netgraph address
>  to include, say, an IP address, eg.:
>
>    $ ngctl msg 192.168.1.12:foo: blah blah
>
>- Encode control messsages in their ASCII forms for transit
>  across the network
>
>- Pick a well known UDP port to be used for netgraph messages
>  and data packets
>
>- Create a node type that could listen on this port (using ng_ksocket)
>  and do the required encoding/decoding.
>
>-Archie
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com
>
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