From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 15:43:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA25193 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 15:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com ([207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA25188 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA05448; Mon, 20 May 1996 15:43:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: whistle.com: smap set sender to using -f Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma005446; Mon May 20 15:42:46 1996 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01046; Mon, 20 May 1996 15:42:46 -0700 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199605202242.PAA01046@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: ip masquerading To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 15:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: archie@whistle.com, terry@lambert.org, dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu, clintm@ICSI.Net, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org, bmah@cs.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: <199605202222.PAA28693@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 20, 96 03:22:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > So as far as the Internet, the IETF, the protocol police, and everybody > > else is concerned, there's only a single host at this site and it's > > obeying all the rules! If you disagree, then the burden of proof is on > > you to quote the relevant RFC's. > > Actually, the burden is on someone who wants a proxy facility to > write one, and if they choose to go the long way around and go > with "masquerading", to get it integrated. That's a different burden from the one I was talking about, but OK :-) I'll say it again, I'm not interested in getting this stuff into the kernel any more than you are. I'm just saying that it is something that some people out there would really like to do, and if it could be facilitated somehow, those people would be very grateful. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@whistle.com * Whistle Communications Corporation