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Re: OK, now that we agree
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Reed)
Tue Apr 9 13:26:34 1996
From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:54:10 +1000 (EST)
Cc: shaver@neon.ingenia.com, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0u6hXr-0009fcC@iifeak.swan.ac.uk> from "Alan Cox" at Apr 9, 96 06:49:34 pm
In some mail from Alan Cox, sie said:
>
> > OK, then how does the kernel react to inbound SYNs, etc.? Does it
> > forge them back itself, or somehow get the process to?
>
> If you are masquerading I guess the kernel would do it.
>
> > I'd prefer having the process do it, because otherwise it's hard to
> > handle to semantics of CONNREFUSED correctly.
>
> Humm.. I guess the masquerade can always reply with stuff like
>
> "550 Host is down"
>
> if its connect fails.
oh, I assumed you were going to do it the 'other' way which uses address
translation and rewrite to localhost going in.
