Re: Julian's netowrking challenge 2005

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 06/28/05

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    Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:41:04 -0700
To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>

    Jeremie Le Hen wrote:

    >>Wouldn't a more general approach be better. e.g. a way to "tag" a packet
    >>before it is sent to divert and a matching tag-lookup that can do further
    >>action. This would make it very easy to do all kinds of stuff that needs to
    >>know the original address instead of the translated one while avoiding code
    >>duplication.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Having the possibility to tag a packet would be worth indeed. But I
    >think that Milan wants to bring network stack virtualization in
    >newer release of FreeBSD IIUC. This would be, IMO, a great improvement
    >of FreeBSD networking, although I'm pretty sure this would make Netgraph
    >people react a bit ;-).
    >
    >

    why?
    I think they are orthogonal.

    >
    >
    >>pf does something along these lines in case you are looking for references.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Would it be possible to share this tag among pf and ipfw ?
    >
    >Regards,
    >
    >
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