From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 27 16:31:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA27829 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:31:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA27810 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [10.0.1.5]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA10510; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:27:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA29484; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:27:34 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199707272227.XAA29484@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0delta 6/3/97 To: FreeBSD Technical Reader cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" , Dan Janowski , hackers Subject: Re: ipfw divert, transparent proxy In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:32:31 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:27:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I know I could be banned for life for saying this --- but you could also > use a linux machine and the ipmasquerading built into the kernel for doing > this, there are no equivalent features in FreeBSD and it works much better > than natd (Ipmasquerading is one of the things i miss from linux). Please > forgive me for this sin. Not true. Linux masquerading can not tunnel sockets to internal machines and cannot create RPC based connections. The only thing it has that Charles' code doesn't is CUSeeMe (and I've promised to have a look at that when I can). Anyway, the divert stuff is way cooler too ! -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....