From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 14 02:27:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA17297 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 02:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17290 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 02:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03585; Thu, 14 May 1998 02:25:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Terry Lambert cc: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), brian@awfulhak.org, mattc@rfcnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 May 1998 02:51:14 -0000." <199805140251.TAA03936@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 02:25:07 -0700 Message-ID: <3580.895137907@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. Which will only confuse the hell out of people all over again when they confuse it with something like socks. RFS or not, I think that's a bad idea. > The term "NAT" is generally meaningless, and doesn't imply some things It's no more or less than what various hardware devices for doing essentially the same thing back in the 80's called themselves, and that's meaningful enough for me. We've also got a "natd" already, so it's self-consistent. That's good enough for me, and the topic is a religious enough one that any dissenting opinions can be safely ignored. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message