From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 12:05:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07296 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA07276 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost.lan.awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA06393; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:04:27 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199704211904.UAA06393@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Address Translation In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:28:44 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:04:27 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello. > > I'm planning to write a socket firewall for FreeBSD as my university > diploma project. By socket firewall, I mean something, that would > sit on a router connecting a local network to the internet, > and flip all outgoing tcp requests to the only one assigned IP > addess. - something that is called masquareding in Linux. > Before starting this project, I'd like to make sure that I'm not going to > do something, that has already been done - so, please, if anybody > knows about a software like this already existing, let me know about it. > Also, I'd like to ask for advice how to write this project, so that > it can get integrated into the FreeBSD distribution (if it prooves to > be usefull and stable). I don't plan to keep its copyright. Sorry, you're a couple of months too late ! Check out ports/net/natd in -current. > Thank you for any reply > > Vlada Mencl > -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....