Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:24:41 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel |
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On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Marc Mutz wrote: > > No. IP masq. changes IP _headers_; he was talking of data. > > IP masq changes the data too for specific apps. Simply rewriting the > headers is not enough for applications which pass addresses & port > numbers in their protocol.
I guess the important difference is that IP masquerading only substitutes bytes; it neither inserts nor deletes bytes. Not to mention that you can't mmap() a network stream. It's not a good comparison to CRLF conversion. My vote is to kill that feature in 2.3 and retroactively add a warning to 2.2.11.
-- Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai> "Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson
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