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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 1996 09:48:50 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, muir@idiom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: An ISP's Wishlist...
Message-ID:  <199602161548.JAA05449@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602160639.XAA10149@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 15, 96 11:39:14 pm

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> : Address rewriting is not going to make you popular with too many people.  
> : SLiRP is close to transparent as well, and doesn't require any work on
> : your part.
> 
> SLiRP (as well as TIA) do address rewriting...  Or is that your point? 

No, they don't... they just LOOK like they do due to the inherent nature of
emulation.  No packets actually pass from one network to another, so there
can be no "rewriting".  (from a user's point of view, maybe it doesn't 
matter).

... Joe

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