From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 12:22:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA11386 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA11371 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost.coverform.lan [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA09303; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 04:45:09 GMT Message-Id: <199701160445.EAA09303@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Archie Cobbs , julian@whistle.com, danny@panda.hilink.com.au, ejs@bfd.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:30:03 PST." <4883.853385403@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 04:45:08 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > ...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 , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....