Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:30:03 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, julian@whistle.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ejs@bfd.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:23:15 PST." <199701160323.TAA23891@bubba.whistle.com>
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> ...that is, given some existing address translation code, it should be > easy to adapt it to use divert sockets. Different from writing it from > scratch, which is not as easy. :-) Nonetheless, it's probably impractical to expect that someone will wrest the NAT code out of ppp and figure out how divert sockets work before Brian here could simply merge the Mott code back into ppp. If that's the only solution which presents itself in 6 months, I certainly wouldn't see a reason to oppose it. People have been talking about a more general purpose address translation mechanism for years now, but it's still all vaporware. :-) Jordan
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