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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2001 01:24:13 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP intercept?
Message-ID:  <3AE3D89D.9ABCA7B6@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.20.0104230002310.21201-100000@www.everquick.net>

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"E.B. Dreger" wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I'm no kernel hacker, and trying to think of useful little projects to
> change that. ;-)
> 
> AFAIK, FreeBSD lacks support for TCP intercept.  Is anyone already working
> on this?  Would it be of interest to anyone?  My initial thoughts are that
> it should be implemented in the same neighborhood as stateful firewall
> code, as the two are rather closely related.

If you mean IP forwarding, you can do that with ipnat (part of ipfilter) or
with natd.  If you mean network interface monitoring, see the man page for
bpf.  Otherwise, you'll have to explain what you mean by "TCP intercept", it
is not a terminology in common use.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/

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