[ds6] Using NC6 as a circuit level proxy between IPv6 and IPv4

[Mauro Tortonesi]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Chris Leishman wrote:

> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 06:24 PM, Eric Vyncke wrote:
> > Thanks, downloaded the latest CVS, compile and it works fine
> > (specially with --continuous option).
>
> Oh yeah....exec is only in the CVS.  We really should make a new
> release... Mauro?

yes, absolutely. excuse me, i am working on a major refactoring of nc6
io_stream code (in order to intoduce the support of tunneling, logging and
ssl) and i hoped to be able to merge my code before next release.
unfortunately i have not finished that work yet :-(

i'll do it tomorrow when i'll be back from the webbit mega-event. in the
meanwhile, could you please test the current cvs sources to see if there
are some problems for the 0.5 release?

> > The only thing 'missing' (with several workarounds -- so feel free to
> > ignore) is a --daemon option ;-)
>
> Something to consider....

yes. thank you for this suggestion, eric.

> Please be aware, however, that it's not very efficient proxying data
> this way.  There's unnecessary overhead in creating a new nc6 process
> for every new connection and also in multiple copies of the data as it
> is passed between the two processes.  Perhaps one day we'll add in
> better 'redirection' support.

IMVHO, we should add this redirection ASAP.

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