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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router 
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:30:03 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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