On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Ole Troan <otr...@employees.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The 'S' in VPP's S-NAT plugin name has often been confused with Linux' 
> "Source NAT". The 'S' originally stood for "Simple", implying that it was a 
> less complex implementation of NAT than the previous VCGN implementation.
>
> Because of this confusion (and possibly valid arguments that it isn't so 
> simple anymore) we'd like to rename it.
> The feature supports all flavours of NAT44 and NAT64.
>
> The suggested new name is simply NAT. I.e. "VPP NAT".
>
> The proposal is to change the name in the wiki, documentation, folder/files 
> and CLI.
> I am unsure if it is possible to change the API at this point. We might have 
> to put in the new message names and allow those to live in parallel with the 
> old ones for a release or two.

> Does anyone use the SNAT API?

Yes!

> Opinions?

Changing its name would be good.

I can track the name changes if you just want to slam them out there.

jdl
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