Re: [uml-user] Feature wanted: taking over an entire interface

[Marius B. <ma...@un...>]

William Stearns <wst...@po...> writes:

> Although I present this in the light of your firewall request above,
> this would certainly work with squid running inside UML and
> transparent proxying for your second request,

it's not transparent enough.  I'm planning on making a protocol change
in NNTP's handling of CANCEL posts, and as you know, nntp servers act
different based on what ip address connects to them.  So in order to
make a solution that works with ALL nntp daemons(some of which are
closed source as well as unmaintained), I need to be able to
not only intercept the connection, but repoduce, and alter, it with
the same source IP.

I have been told OpenBSD allows this to be done, but I simply don't
have any hardware available for testing or implementing. :-/


Marius