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From: "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@org.chem.msu.su>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Masquerading in FreeBSD Distributions?
Date: 19 Dec 1996 11:55:27 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Moscow State University
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote in article
<32B81A02.1CFBAE39@FreeBSD.org>...
> What's more likely to happen is that someone will make use of the IP
> divert features of 2.2 to write a more general purpose NAT daemon.
BTW, are there any chances of integrating the IP-Filter code by Darren Reed
into the 'official' FreeBSD kernel? Beside NAT, it has more powerful packet
filtering capabilities. I am wary of kernel patching (it is said to be
somewhat unstable in future versions and I would like to be able to
reinstall the system more or less automatically).
Genie
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Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry
E-mail: eugene@org.chem.msu.su Fax: +7-(095)939-0290
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