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From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
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To: Brian Somers <brian@utell.co.uk>
cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>,
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        Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Single socket version of natd
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The one situation I think is difficult for natd to handle is is when ppp 
is running in -auto mode, and it reconnects on each dial-in with a 
different dynamcially assigned address.

At the moment, natd can do device address lookup at startup, but to 
handle the above mentioned case, it would have to do a device address 
lookup for every packet.  Is it possible to do this?

I personally like having both ppp -alias as well as natd.  Having the 
software embedded in ppp and enabled with the -alias switch makes life 
very easy for a great number of less sophisticated users.

Charles Mott


On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> You guessed it - Charles originally wrote the code so.  Eventually, I'd
> like to
> remove the -alias switch from ppp and have the only implementation being
> in the natd code.
> 
> Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org> <brian@utell.co.uk>
>       <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour
> 
> ----------
> > From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
> > To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
> > Cc: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>; Brian Somers
> <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi>;
> hackers@freebsd.org; brian@utell.co.uk
> > Subject: Re: Single socket version of natd
> > Date: 04 February 1997 10:49
> > 
> > Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > > 
> > > At 07:36 PM 2/3/97 -0700, Charles Mott wrote:
> > > >Eivind has these updates and has integrated them into his codebase,
> > > >which he is continuing to work on.  He writes that he has changed some
> of
> > > >the compile options (ALIAS_ALLOW_INCOMING, ALIAS_SAME_PORTS, etc.) to
> ppp
> > > >commands.
> > > 
> > So are we talking about ppp, or natd here?
> > teh subject line says natd..
> > but sounds like that's not the case...
> > (or has someone abstracted out the alias code to
> > a separate module that can be used for both?
> > 
> > julian
>