Multiple NAT router

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Tue Jul 25 19:38:14 UTC 2006


Brian Candler wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:40:13PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>an ng_ip node :-)
>>I've considerred it.
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>Then all the tools like 'netstat' and 'route' need modifying to talk to a
>netgraph socket, but in principle I don't see why it couldn't be done.
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>ISTM there are a zillion userland-to-kernel and kernel-to-kernel
>communication interfaces:
>- ioctl
>- geom
>- cam
>- netgraph
>- vfs
>- sysctl
>- kmem
>- procfs
>- ...
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>Perhaps they could all be replaced by netgraph??
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no, netgraph's interface is very specialised in its characteristics.
though you could replace tun, tap and gif  very easily.


>Regards,
>
>Brian.
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