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Subject: Re: SO_BINDANY in FreeBSD
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Mij wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> OpenBSD provides a SO_BINDANY socket option that allows an
> application to produce traffic from an IP address which is not configured
> on the host:
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=setsockopt
> 
> This is useful to run a transparent proxy which receives connections from
> X and wants to connect to the real destination pretending to be X.

we have a similar functionality in beta.
teh big holdup right now is we discovered the OpenBSD version
and are thinking about how compatible to make our code.

> 
> Is there any possibility to see this option implemented in FreeBSD? Do
> you otherwise have workarounds for getting the same behavior with
> reasonable complexity (eg, avoiding handling raw frames with bpf)?
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