From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 14 19:05:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07963 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07935 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12539; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:05:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd012479; Thu May 14 19:04:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA16311; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:04:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805150204.TAA16311@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log To: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 02:04:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, brian@Awfulhak.org, mattc@rfcnet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Charles Mott" at May 14, 98 07:52:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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