On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/31 Vinu Rajashekhar <vinuthe...@gmail.com>: >> "You can implement a NAT by mounting a /net from a perimeter machine >> with a public IP, while connecting to it from an internal network of private >> IP addresses, using the Plan 9 protocol 9P in the internal network." >> >> This is from the wikipedia page on Plan 9 OS. >> >> Is something like iptables like in linux needed to be implemented for >> Plan 9 ? > > My student's summer of code project, which was quite unfortunately not > completed, was to implement support for NAT in Plan 9, and to > implement a firewalling infrastructure. I think it would be good to > implement something like this, and several people thought that > implementing NAT, if done correctly, would be quite useful for people > running Plan 9. I'm still interested in providing guidance and info > about this if it's something you're interested in pursuing -- I have > quite a few ideas on how it should work. >
Yea I did see that it was accepted as a project, but I couldn't see the actual sources or anything, so I assumed it may have got stalled. I am interested in it, from an overall point of view, but right now I am don't know enough about Plan 9 to give any constructive ideas. Still climbing the learning curve ! Thanks for responding though. > Kind regards, > > Devon H. O'Dell > > -- Vinu Rajashekhar, 5th Year Dual Degree Student, Deptt of Computer Science & Engg, IIT Kharagpur, India.
