UDP catchall

. at babolo.ru . at babolo.ru
Sat Nov 3 17:05:19 PDT 2007


> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:53:56AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > It's possible using ipfw to mostly implement this, and with an upcoming 
> > change, possible to completely implement this.
> > 
> > the "uid" function of ipfw can act as a "does there exist a socket to which 
> > this packet would go?" test.
> > and a variant of it called "for_me" that I am adding (we use it at work) 
> > does this even better.
> > 
> > so, basically,
> > 
> > yyy:   skipto xxx ip from any to-me
> > yyy+1: fwd 127.0.0.1,1234
> > xxx:
> 
> One problem with this kind of implementation is that it's impossible to
> make it plug and play.
Just equip mtund with script that configure
virgin OS in proper way and restrict to do
that when there is some non-minimal configuration,
for example ipfw is not empty.

Your plug and play goal as written contradicts
BSD spirits IMHO.

Sorry for bad English.



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