From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: NAT In-Reply-To: <037f01c3878f$d7fc11c0$b9844051@insultant.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-dqjztukkspxpesofsxszyobzsi" Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:07:30 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5964dff6-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-dqjztukkspxpesofsxszyobzsi Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There's an inferno firewall. Ehg and ynl did a NAT but I don't know what the status of it is. --upas-dqjztukkspxpesofsxszyobzsi Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Tue Sep 30 16:36:18 EDT 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Tue Sep 30 16:36:15 EDT 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 4669319C76; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:35:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.30.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 117C919C71; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:35:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 7AA1819B4A; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:34:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ams003.ftl.affinity.com (lvs00-fl-n03.valueweb.net [216.219.253.136]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 73D2D19BC4 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:34:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from coma ([81.64.132.185]) by ams.ftl.affinity.com with SMTP id <228100-13992>; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:32:59 -0400 Message-ID: <037f01c3878f$d7fc11c0$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <52815.135.214.42.162.1064956401.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: NAT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:16:56 +0200 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > sometime back there was a mail that said NAT and firewall code will be > integrated to Plan 9 kernel. i was wondering whether it is really a good > idea to put NAT/firewall code into the OS. no it isn't. bugs will kill you dead. if it's in user mode the problem can be contained and a lot easier to code/run/test. no root on plan 9 :) --upas-dqjztukkspxpesofsxszyobzsi--