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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        julian@ref.tfs.com (JULIAN Elischer)
Cc:        noel@harleystreet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IP masquerading over tunel device
Message-ID:  <199607162254.PAA12535@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607161733.KAA02469@ref.tfs.com> from "JULIAN Elischer" at Jul 16, 96 10:33:23 am

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Julian writes:

>  wait, wait!
>  we've already got code to do this....
> 
>  we're hoping we get permission to check it in this week!

[...]

> also 
> there is a new ppp daemon coming that has translation built in too..
> 
> with luck we'll be able to check in the ppp daemin this week.
> and while the translationdaemon may not be so easy to talk management into,
> the divert code in -current should make it a snap for you..

I should protray the status of this code more accurately...

 * The divert(4) code has already been checked in to -current. It
   enables any enterprising soul who wants to write an address
   translation daemon (or, whatever) to do so easily without any
   kernel mods.

 * The ppp daemon is a modified version of iij-ppp which has an
   address translation filter hacked into it; it may or may not
   ever see the light of day depending on management approval...
   hopefully so. In any case it's somewhat irrelevant now because
   divert sockets are a better way to implement address translation.
   Things like address translation should be separate from ppp.

-Archie

___________________________________________________________________________
Archie L. Cobbs, archie@whistle.com  *  Whistle Communications Corporation



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