From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 13 19:52:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16523 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 19:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16440 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 19:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21822; Wed, 13 May 1998 19:51:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd021749; Wed May 13 19:51:32 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA03936; Wed, 13 May 1998 19:51:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805140251.TAA03936@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 02:51:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, brian@awfulhak.org, mattc@rfcnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980514001550.53205@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at May 14, 98 00:15:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 :-) If you want to use the name it's called in the RFC's, you should use the term "transparent proxy" or just "proxy" for short. The term "NAT" is generally meaningless, and doesn't imply some things that it should, while at the same time imply some things it shouldn't. It's too "fuzzy" to be truly meaningful. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message