Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:47:42 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: archie@whistle.com, 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: <199701160747.IAA02126@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 15, 97 07:30:03 pm"
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote:
> > ...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. :-)
It not difficult either, really..
> 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. :-)
Its NOT all vapourware, you can actually buy the version I did 'bout
6 month ago :)
Well, the hooks are in the kernel, one just needs to write the NAT
code and plug it in, it works, and its fast...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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