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Re: IP Masquerading (checksums)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Remco van de Meent)
Fri Sep 27 09:57:12 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:37:45 +0200
To: Juan Jose Ciarlante <jjciarla@raiz.uncu.edu.ar>
From: Remco van de Meent <remco@cal052012.student.utwente.nl>
Cc: Charles Brian Hill <hill@unr.net>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
At 17:15 26-09-96 -0300, Juan Jose Ciarlante wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Remco van de Meent wrote:
>
>> If you wanna loose them, why don't you just simply comment out the code
>> that log's such things in the source code for ip_masq. (though I dunno
>> where to find it, never looked after it).
>Here we come to the ``semantic'' question of masquerading, not being
>a router nor an application-level proxy ... (something in between ;).
>So, should we toss corrupted pkts or leave detection to linkends like a
>router? Maybe we should only spend CPU cycles checking packets that go
>through ip_masq application modules.
>
Hmm. Why do we bother about it.
In most every program that does "something on the net", syslog.h is used
for logging purposes, mostly when something fails. That's exactly what
ip_masq does by default. So if you don't like them, just give them a little
"#', and recompile... but okay, it's a bit strange to just ignore errors :)
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