Re: Hurd as router/NAT

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> 
> > The kernel already has a netfilter capacity in Mach.
> 
> Could one use that to port something like KLIPS2 (the next version of
> the kernel parts of freeswan), which will use the linux-2.4
> netfilter-architecture to get into the packet processing at the right
> places?

I don't know.  The kernel's facility is basically a clone of the BSD
packet filter.  But you read the packets using the normal Mach
interface (not a special socket).