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Does it have to be vat?  Can you use rat (assuming it's stable enough
yet)?


> 1) patch the network module of vat and intercept traffic there;
> 2) program vat to use 127.0.0.1 and let my program talk to vat
>    using the same address. My program would basically do address
>    translation in both directions.
> 
> I like better #2, except that I am not sure of how much of the IP
> header is used by these apps. Also #1 is not an option when you do not
> have sources available :)
> 
> Any suggestion on how to operate or pointers to documentation ?
> 
> 	Thanks
> 	Luigi
>