From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 23:46:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA08371 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:46:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA08365 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.4/8.7.3) id IAA02126; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:47:51 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199701160747.IAA02126@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-Reply-To: <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 15, 97 07:30:03 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:47:42 +0100 (MET) Cc: archie@whistle.com, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, julian@whistle.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ejs@bfd.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..