>> i've got a lot of folk in the house who run whatever. >> i'd really like to decommission the non-plan 9 machine. >> the one thing i need from it is nat. (and i don't want >> to be stuck fiddling more stuff on the dsl appliance.) >> doing nat just isn't that hard. i just need to find the time. >> this is about a summer-of-code sized project. i don't think >> it would require anything from the kernel. > > I beg to differ. NAT adds complications to the already complex IP. > Adding NAT to the Plan 9 IP stack can only make it more fragile, why > not leave the job to the appliances that have been designed and > constructed to deal with the problem and have been subject to very > broad testing?
perhaps you forgot to read the part where i said i don't think this would require anything from the kernel; the ip would not need modification. - erik
