Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:26:19 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Smith <tiburon359@usa.net> Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, archie@dellroad.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New netgraph features? Message-ID: <3A43F12B.1E24B658@elischer.org> References: <20001222160754.8887.qmail@nwcst276.netaddress.usa.net>
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John Smith wrote:
>
> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> >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?
>
> Yes, It must be. This is probably the next-in-thread request for
> comments/suggestions. I'm still not sure if the whole thing would be useful,
> so, the authentication methods seem too far to me at the present time. If you
> have any comments about this... I think you know what to do :)
Netgraph was designed to be a link-level patch-pannel within ONE machine..
I guess you might be able to use it to bridge between two networks
that are on different machines... but....
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