From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 14:15:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA17201 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:15:44 -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 OAA17193 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:15:37 -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 VAA01557; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:41:55 GMT Message-Id: <199701162141.VAA01557@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Warner Losh cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ISDN Router In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 01:59:18 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:41:54 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....