Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 04:45:08 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, julian@whistle.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ejs@bfd.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <199701160445.EAA09303@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:30:03 PST." <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com>
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> > ...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. :-)
>
> 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. :-)
>
> Jordan
I'm happy to (and would prefer to) make the alias stuff use divert sockets...
but what are they ? and would people be happy with the alias code at this
level ?
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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