Re: IP Masquerade

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From: Simon Leinen
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:00

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>>>>> "rj" == Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com> writes:
> Well, learning to hack IP in Lisp - sounds like a challenge.

On the contrary!!!

Lisp machines are great for hacking networking protocols.  Imagine
modifying the Ethernet driver source to add a new feature, and
activate it just by typing C-M-a.  When you make mistakes you usually
get popped into the debugger, fix the bug, type C-M-a and try again.

Hacking IP in Unix is certainly a challenge - change anything, rebuild
the kernel, reboot (or recompile the module, unload (after stopping
anything that uses it if you manage), reload (and start up everything
that wants to use it)).  If you made a mistake, you get a kernel panic
or worse and have to reboot :-(

Seriously, doing experimental implementations of networking protocols
would be the number one reason for me to get a LispM again.

Have fun (I bet you will),
-- 
Simon.
(-: who still has an SNMP agent for Genera lying around - but no LispM )-:

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