From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 16 07:51:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA11545 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:51:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com ([151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA11540 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id JAA05449; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 09:48:51 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199602161548.JAA05449@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: An ISP's Wishlist... To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 09:48:50 -0600 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, muir@idiom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602160639.XAA10149@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Feb 15, 96 11:39:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > : 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968