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Date:      Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:27:33 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        FreeBSD Technical Reader <kernel@acromail.ml.org>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>, hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ipfw divert, transparent proxy 
Message-ID:  <199707272227.XAA29484@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:32:31 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726123020.9794C-100000@acromail.ml.org>

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> 
> I know I could be banned for life for saying this --- but you could also
> use a linux machine and the ipmasquerading built into the kernel for doing
> this, there are no equivalent features in FreeBSD and it works much better
> than natd (Ipmasquerading is one of the things i miss from linux). Please
> forgive me for this sin.

Not true.  Linux masquerading can not tunnel sockets to internal machines and cannot create RPC based connections.  The only thing it has that Charles' code doesn't is CUSeeMe (and I've promised to have a look at that when I can).

Anyway, the divert stuff is way cooler too !
-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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