Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:04:34 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> Cc: John Smith <tiburon359@usa.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New netgraph features? Message-ID: <70738.977486674@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:57:10 PST." <200012212157.eBLLvAU78207@curve.dellroad.org>
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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 ? Poul-Henning In message <200012212157.eBLLvAU78207@curve.dellroad.org>, Archie Cobbs writes: >John Smith writes: >> Well, may be I didn't said exactly what I wanted to. >> If we use say, ksocket nodes as a tunnel, we will >> transfer the data - ok, but what about metadata? >> May be I should say 'to connect two netgraphs'? >> May be this is a lost cause, but that's why I'm asking. > >Yes, there would need to be some extra stuff. Here are some >quick possibilities.. > >- We'd need to enhace the definition of a netgraph address > to include, say, an IP address, eg.: > > $ ngctl msg 192.168.1.12:foo: blah blah > >- Encode control messsages in their ASCII forms for transit > across the network > >- Pick a well known UDP port to be used for netgraph messages > and data packets > >- Create a node type that could listen on this port (using ng_ksocket) > and do the required encoding/decoding. > >-Archie > >__________________________________________________________________________ >Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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