Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 02:00:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log Message-ID: <199805150200.TAA15937@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980514133038.26270@follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at May 14, 98 01:30:38 pm
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> > You will note that a NAT *MUST* have proxy facilities (FTP is > > specifically mentioned on page 7). > > I disagree with "*MUST*" here. A NAT that want to support protocols > using separate connections back to the client from the server need > special handling (which could be considered a proxy, but I'm slightly > uncertain about whether this is correct, given that Datagrams. The "response" bit in the packet header. > I've always considered NAT to be _any_ Network Address Translator - > ie, a program that change IP-packets in transit to modify where they > appear to come from or go to. With that defintion it's fairly > precise, I think. It's an unnecessariky broad net which happens to capture what -alias does (and a bunch of seaweed and a flounder or two). Suffice it to say that it annoys me as much as someone claiming a "MUD" is "Cyberspace", when it's not possible to actually torture someone to death in a "MUD" and have them die in the real world from wounds inflicted. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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