Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:41:54 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router Message-ID: <199701162141.VAA01557@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 01:59:18 MST." <E0vknfK-00026c-00@rover.village.org>
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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...
Ah, but now this stuff has been done (by Charles Mott). The rest is just
detail ;)
--
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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