From owner-freebsd-net Fri Dec 22 16:27:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 16:27:18 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.interware.hu (mail.interware.hu [195.70.32.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993F837B402; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:27:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaborone-56.budapest.interware.hu ([195.70.52.184] helo=elischer.org) by mail.interware.hu with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 149cWn-00024H-00; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 01:27:13 +0100 Sender: julian@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A43F12B.1E24B658@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:26:19 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Smith Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, archie@dellroad.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New netgraph features? References: <20001222160754.8887.qmail@nwcst276.netaddress.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Smith wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp 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.... -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ from Perth, presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message