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From: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi>
To: "'Charles Mott'" <cmott@srv.net>
Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Eivind Eklund
	 <eivind@dimaga.com>,
        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>,
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Subject: RE: Single socket version of natd
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:36:52 +0200
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Hi,

	Checking device address for each packet might be too slow.
	Maybe kill -HUP signal to natd could be used to force a device
	address lookup again. 

	Anyway, also I think that currently it might be good to
	have aliasing as a built-in feature of ppp also.

		Ari S.

	

-----Original Message-----
From:	Charles Mott [SMTP:cmott@srv.net]
Sent:	4. helmikuuta 1997 18:28
To:	Brian Somers
Cc:	Julian Elischer; Eivind Eklund; Brian Somers; Ari Suutari; hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:	Re: Single socket version of natd

The one situation I think is difficult for natd to handle is is when ppp 
is running in -auto mode, and it reconnects on each dial-in with a 
different dynamcially assigned address.

At the moment, natd can do device address lookup at startup, but to 
handle the above mentioned case, it would have to do a device address 
lookup for every packet.  Is it possible to do this?

I personally like having both ppp -alias as well as natd.  Having the 
software embedded in ppp and enabled with the -alias switch makes life 
very easy for a great number of less sophisticated users.

Charles Mott