From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 14 07:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12315 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 07:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from srv.net (snake.srv.net [199.104.81.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12294 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 07:54:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (cmott.srv.net [199.104.81.25]) by srv.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA10173; Thu, 14 May 1998 08:53:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 07:52:43 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Darren Reed , Brian Somers , mattc@rfcnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log In-Reply-To: <4462.895145748@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > In some mail from Brian Somers, sie said: > > > > > > > > When I originally picked up ppp, it used this name.... when it was > > > > > syslogd()ified, it kept the name. There's no good reason (except > > > > > that it's now what everyone knows). > > > > > > > > Hey, speaking of names, how about renaming (over time) the rather > > > > ill-named -alias flag to -nat? :-) > > > > > > Probably not a bad idea. libalias would have to change to libnat too > > > though (for consistency).... Any views Charles (cc'd) ? > > > > It's misleading and inaccurate to refer to the "-alias" flag as the > > "-nat" flag. > > -alias doesn't win many points for being accurate or even particularly > unambiguous either. ifconfig, a close neighbor to ppp, also sports > an alias flag which people come frequently into contact with when > doing virtual web hosting. Your better suggestion please? > > - Jordan The library has been developing to have an increasingly generalized NAT capability. When it started out, I called it "packet aliasing". One suggestion is to change the ppp flag to -pktalias or -pkt_alias, since this is closer to the original intent. With all due respect to Darren, I think that -nat would not also be a fairly good option name for ppp. I'm also not averse to changing libalias to libnat and reworking some of the function names. Ari Suutari and I were doing some work to make a libalias3.0 which would support transparent proxying. Maybe the released version of this should be libnat. Personally, I think the ifconfig alias option is equally confusing and should be called a secondary or virtual ip address. I think "secondary" would actually be the most appropriate term rather than "alias" for ifconfig. Charles Mott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message