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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:44:18 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        Aaron Nichols <adnichols@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Problems with NAT on gif interface for VPN
Message-ID:  <20041104204418.GB28789@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041102124027.GH10641@sitadelle.com>
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:40:27PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Yep, that seems to be exactly what I need. I don't suppose there are
> > any plans to implement something similar in FreeBSD anytime soon?
> > Considering I'm so close to getting this to work it's frustrating to
> > think that I would need to migrate to OpenBSD to have this
> > functionality and uproot everything else this server already does
> > (mail, dns, web, etc).
>=20
> Considering if_enc.c from OpenBSD's HEAD (see URLs at the bottom), it
> does not seem to be difficult to port to FreeBSD, but since I'm not a
> kernel guru at all, there may be some issues I don't even suspect.o
>=20
> I'm concious that making it FreeBSD's SMP compliant should require a
> little amount of work, but it could be maked with the IFF_NEEDSGIANT
> flag for a first step.  Are there any reason why we would not need nor
> want this in FreeBSD ?

I think the KAME people had some sort of objection to one of it's
features, but as long as it's not running by default I can't see how it
matters.  I don't think we should allow new drivers with IFF_NEEDSGIANT
into the tree.

-- Brooks

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