Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 20:06:52 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: wes@bogon.net (Wes Santee) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uses for divert sockets? Message-ID: <199704060406.UAA06266@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199704041820.KAA19125@lister.bogon.net> from Wes Santee at "Apr 4, 97 10:20:26 am"
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> The new ipdivert sockets in 2.2 sound great, but I'm not quite sure > just what I can accomplish with them outside of address translation. > Is it just for packet altering, or can entire connections be > redirected? > > For example, let's say I want some incomming connections to port 25 to > be diverted to another "special" MTA running on another port (to deal > with known spam sites "properly", for instance). Is it possible using > divert and ipfw to do this? Or is divert pretty much only for dealing > with raw IP packets that get injected back into the stream to end up > at their intended destination? You should be able to do this... pretty much anything is "possible" because you can completely change a packet, drop it, optionally have it bypass the normal routing code, create new packets, etc... -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com
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