Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:05:59 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, <brian@Awfulhak.org> Subject: Re: natd and userland ppp Message-ID: <001101c02ccd$c1e96470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200010022329.e92NT9n37409@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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> > > It seems also that some features (such as automatic holes in the firewall > > > and dynamic rules) are a bit tricky to get working properly with aliasing in > > > ppp. Now I probably missed some tricks on that side, so don't flame me > > > because of that last comment, educate me! > > > > > > I'm not an expert on PPP's filtering rules.. I'll let Brian answer that.. > > The firewall punching stuff is done internally in libalias, so > there's no code duplication there. > > I think there's probably room for some sort of ascii interface to > libalias though, including (at least) the natd configuration file > parser. That way ppp could allow ``nat config /etc/natd.conf'' and > could have a generally more compatible (with natd) interface. And just in case anyone was wondering, I am currently working on a ``nat config <configfile>'' feature for ppp. I'm just taking lots of time determining the best way to do it, since there is a considerable amount of code from natd that needs to be added to ppp (in other words, the config file parser is around 25% of natd's total code.) -- Matthew Emmerton GSI Computer Services +1 (800) 217 5409 (Canada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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