Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 01:59:18 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <E0vknfK-00026c-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:30:03 PST." <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com> References: <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com>
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In message <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : People have been : talking about a more general purpose address translation mechanism for : years now, but it's still all vaporware. :-) It is a damn hard problem to do. Years ago when I was doing work on TIA, there were all kinds of problems with trying to do this. You had to do every protocol that sends IP addresses or ports down the wire. FTP, RealAudio, talk, irc, ntalk, and a few others all do this and all do it differently. No wonder there isn't a general purpose NAT... Warner
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