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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:38:13 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Marko Zec <zec@icir.org>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Subject:   Re: Multiple NAT router
Message-ID:  <44C67325.8040504@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060725073436.GA7477@uk.tiscali.com>
References:  <7.0.1.0.2.20060721105813.0971ae90@lariat.net>	<20060724090909.GB3412@uk.tiscali.com>	<200607241609.30783.zec@icir.org>	<20060724192419.GA5474@uk.tiscali.com>	<44C5302D.1020807@elischer.org> <20060725073436.GA7477@uk.tiscali.com>

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Brian Candler wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:40:13PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>an ng_ip node :-)
>>I've considerred it.
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>Then all the tools like 'netstat' and 'route' need modifying to talk to a
>netgraph socket, but in principle I don't see why it couldn't be done.
>
>ISTM there are a zillion userland-to-kernel and kernel-to-kernel
>communication interfaces:
>- ioctl
>- geom
>- cam
>- netgraph
>- vfs
>- sysctl
>- kmem
>- procfs
>- ...
>
>Perhaps they could all be replaced by netgraph??
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>

no, netgraph's interface is very specialised in its characteristics.
though you could replace tun, tap and gif  very easily.


>Regards,
>
>Brian.
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