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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:26:19 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        John Smith <tiburon359@usa.net>
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, archie@dellroad.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New netgraph features?
Message-ID:  <3A43F12B.1E24B658@elischer.org>
References:  <20001222160754.8887.qmail@nwcst276.netaddress.usa.net>

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John Smith wrote:
> 
> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> >I may not have caught the drift here, but if you send meta-data
> >across the net, wouldn't some kind of authentication be needed?
> 
> Yes, It must be. This is probably the next-in-thread request for
> comments/suggestions. I'm still not sure if the whole thing would be useful,
> so, the authentication methods seem too far to me at the present time. If you
> have any comments about this... I think you know what to do :)

Netgraph was designed to be a link-level patch-pannel within ONE machine..
I guess you might be able to use it to bridge between two networks
that are on different machines... but....

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