Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 02:04:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, brian@Awfulhak.org, mattc@rfcnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log Message-ID: <199805150204.TAA16311@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980514074131.26764B-100000@darkstar.home> from "Charles Mott" at May 14, 98 07:52:43 am
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> 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. Or if it supports transparent proxy, then "libproxy"? > 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. I agree here, though a "secondary" option implies a third would require "tertiary". 8-|. I like "virtual" or "vip", since it describes what it is used for; on the other hand, there's merite to remaining compatible with SunOS, et. al.. 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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