Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:11:46 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens), sos@FreeBSD.org, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, julian@whistle.com, wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu, dnex@access.digex.net, current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP masquerading (for a LAN, _not_ PPP) Message-ID: <16515.850947106@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:38:11 PST." <199612182038.MAA19182@bubba.whistle.com>
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> The only point I would argue is that putting the filter/translation > stuff inside the (user-land) ppp daemon combines the worst of both > worlds. Rather than doing this, it would make more sense to separate > it out into a standalone process (via divert sockets) so it can be > used more generally than just with PPP (cf. subject line of this thread). I don't think anyone has ever argued otherwise (conceptually, pulling NAT out of ppp makes sense for a lot of reasons!). This didn't stop a lot of people from needing something which worked in an adequate number of cases right now. :) Jordan
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