Re: Recommend a Kernel

[Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:34:21AM +0800, wanghg wrote:

Next time if you want to start a new thread, please compose a new
message instead of hitting reply and going completely off-topic for a
thread. This is how your message appears in a threaded mail reader like
mutt:

   174     Sep 26 TJMEAR          (  20) Recommend a Kernel
   175     Sep 27 John Levon      (  30) +->
   176 r   Sep 27 Doc             (  34) +->
   177     Sep 28 Erik Mouw       (  43)   +->
   178 r   Oct 02 Doc             (  28)     +->
   179     Oct 02 Erik Mouw       (  36)       +->
   180 N   Oct 03 wanghg          (  24)         +->

Now guess what happens if I hit ctrl-k (kill-thread) judging on the
subject of the first message in the thread...

> Can anybody suggest me some documents about implementing the
> 
> socket-relay inside the Linux kernel? That is when my server receive a 
> connection
> 
> from clients inside, the server will open a new socket to connect to the 
> outside server and then
> 
> send back the data to the clients. It works like a proxy server.
> 
> I want to implement it inside the kernel. If you know the solution, please 
> give me some suggestion.

You're a lucky person. Linux already has that functionality for at
least three years. It's called netfilter in linux-2.4. See
http://netfilter.samba.org/ .


Erik

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