On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Eris Discordia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What makes /net tick depends on what you export on /net. The kernel >> serves your basic /net, yes, but there's nothing to stop you having a >> userspace file server on top of that to do whatever filtering you >> like. > > That would break the protocol stack. 9P is an application layer protocol (or > so I understand). It should _never_ see, or worse rewrite, network layer > data units. If by "a fileserver on top of that" you actually mean a file > server under that then you simply are re-inventing NAT.
Putting a file server over /net which selectively allows access to the underlying /net. There it can monitor data at the application (not transport) level. -- Tom Lieber http://AllTom.com/
