Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 11:39:59 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DIVERT Message-ID: <199608180140.SAA05233@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199608151811.LAA14400@bubba.whistle.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Aug 15, 96 11:11:54 am
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[Just going through old mail not yet deleted...] In some mail from Archie Cobbs, sie said: > Divert sockets were motivated by a discussion about how one would > implement something like address translation (or packet encryption) > under FreeBSD. Lots of people commented that more kernel bloat is > a hated thing. I happened to agree strongly with this sentiment. You should be aware of the NRL project to do IPsec (for NetBSD) as well as ENskip (SKIP compatible code, written in Switzerland, also for NetBSD). I suspect that there are a number of requirements in the various encryption protocols for IP which will make kernel bloat (either via LKM's or direct) inevitable. I don't imagine either of those would be too hard to port to FreeBSD.
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