ng_nat revisited

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Mon Feb 7 17:33:34 PST 2005



Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:02:55PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>E> > D> It's been a while since the subject of ng_nat appeared on-list, I'm wondering
>E> > D> if there has been anymore work done on this?
>E> > 
>E> > Now I'm trying to work on this. I don't guarantee any success in recent future.
>E> > 
>E> > The first step is porting libalias to be a kernel module. I have already
>E> > patches to make it compilable as kernel module, however with some features
>E> > disabled - alias monitoring, sockets, and ipfw punching. The first two can
>E> > be abandoned, but ipfw punching needs to be reimplemented in kernel.
>E> 
>E> Why do you think alias monitoring may be abadoned?
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>It does logging into file. It is difficult to implement same thing in kernel.
>May be it will be substituted with bare log(9).
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or have  "monitor" hook..

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