From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 06:01:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA23049 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 06:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mole.mole.org (marmot.mole.org [204.216.57.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA23044 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 06:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mole.mole.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA09353; Tue, 21 May 1996 13:00:24 GMT Received: from meerkat.mole.org(206.197.192.110) by mole.mole.org via smap (V1.3) id sma009351; Tue May 21 13:00:14 1996 Received: (from mrm@localhost) by meerkat.mole.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) id GAA14547; Tue, 21 May 1996 06:00:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 06:00:14 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" Message-Id: <199605211300.GAA14547@meerkat.mole.org> To: archie@whistle.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: ip masquerading Cc: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu, clintm@ICSI.Net, dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How about we provide them a working tunnel device, source code for > SLiRP, which can be modified to be the type 1 socks proxy daemon, > and source code for user mode PPP, which can be modified to be the > type 2 socks proxy daemon? > > 8-) 8-) 8-). > > Seems to me that it would be less than 60 hours of work to do the > whole thing -- ~2 full weekends. > > Doing the kernel code for a Linux-style implementation in such a way > as to not screw anything up seems to be on the order of 120+ hours > (both figures include testing and documentation and control software). > > Personally, I'm not going to blow all my uncommitted time for a month > to code up something I'll never use, even if there are good, solid > religious reasons for doing so. Two months is totally out of the > question, especially since the result would be inferior. > I'm obviously missing something here. I seem to be happy with a combination of SOCKS 4.2 outgoing and TIS FWTK incoming with a single IP address on the Internet and a class C inside with no routing from the C to the Internet. Netscape seems happy, I can ftp and telnet, and I've a firewall that didn't cost all my cash. Netscape, ftp, telnet and e-mail all work from an interior WfW box, too. What's the problem needing to be solved here? What I really want, emphasize really, is to both know how Terry has 60 hours uncomitted each month for two consecutive months and how I can have the same... -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 Better is the enemy of Good