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Date:      Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:18:09 +0000
From:      Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
To:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Suggestion on natd rc scripts (and an ipnat question)
Message-ID:  <20020216141809.GC75585@voi.aagh.net>
In-Reply-To: <B892AD24.A2B2%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
References:  <3C6D571D.1D53EBEA@alogis.com> <B892AD24.A2B2%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>

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* Ian (freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) wrote:

> Speaking of ipnat... does it have the same kinds of features as natd
> in terms of being able to monitor the streams on certain control ports
> (irc, ftp, pptp, etc) and change the contents of the data stream to
> fix embedded references to IP addresses and ports that are being
> NAT'd?

There is certainly code in there for FTP and a few other thing.  No sign
of IRC stuff, but I could easily have missed it.

In natd this stuff is actually taken care of by libalias, hence ppp -nat
gets the same functionality.

This could do with being documented a bit better, since it's one of
the most important features of a good NAT implimentation, and people
concidering switching from some other system are going to want to know
if they're going to loose the functionality of ip_nat_irc etc.

I know I did; in the end I found myself looking through the source to
find out :)

Maybe an .Xr libalias 3 is in order, or a short mention of this
functionality in Notes.

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst  -  freaky@aagh.net  -  http://www.aagh.net/
-
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