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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 00:03:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
To:        terry@lambert.org
Cc:        bmah@cs.berkeley.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ip masquerading
Message-ID:  <199605210503.AAA19856@compound.Think.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199605210430.VAA29860@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Mon, 20 May 1996 21:30:39 -0700 (MST))

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   From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
   Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:30:39 -0700 (MST)

   > Host, protocol could be encoded in the port number.

   You have *got* to be kidding!

Hey, I'm not the one who wants to recover state.  I'm just trying
to scam out how it could be done.  You've got a good 15.97 bits to
work with...

   >    > It would be nice to pull out the rewriting stuff into loadable
   >    > rule sets.
   > 
   >    It would be nicer to not need them.
   > 
   > Not an option, though, is it?

   It is for a real proxy.  8-).

"real" proxies are still rewriting packets.  They're just
spending a lot more to do it.  That's okay, though.
The point is to make it work, not to make it work efficiently.









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