netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/10] Transparent proxying patches version 4

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Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:11:06 +0100
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Harald Welte <laforge@...filter.org>,
	KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@...abit.hu>,
	netfilter-devel@...ts.netfilter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 00/10] Transparent proxying patches version 4

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote:

> > So instead of using NAT to dynamically redirect traffic to local
> > addresses, we now rely on "native" non-locally-bound sockets and do
> > early socket lookups for inbound IPv4 packets. 
> 
> It's good to see a solid implementation of this 'old idea'.  
> 
> Just as a quick historical note to netdev:  This is the way how the
> netfilter project  advised the balabit guys to implement fully
> transparent proxy support, after having seen the complexity of the old
> nat-based TPROXY patches.

Didn't rusty tell the balabit guys to use the NAT approach?
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