* Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-22 14:38]:
> On 2007/11/22 14:04, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-22 13:11]:
> > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> > > > pf(4) can do this. I have a diff with me but if I send it in the present
> > > > state, then Theo will catch my neck. :)
> > > > 
> > > > I should be able to submit a diff soon. I need to modify it to meet the
> > > > high standards of OpenBSD...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > i'm sure that somebody told you about the reason to reject these patches:
> > > 
> > > it does not belong into the kernel!
> > 
> > well. depends. if it is reasonably small and obvious it might be ok.
> 
> it must look at the control message on TCP/1723 and translate CallID;
> then it must look at the session packets (GRE/proto 47) and translate
> CallID the same way.
> 
> the parts handling control messages probably belong in userland and
> they can add translation rules to an anchor like ftp-proxy does, but
> that would need a change to PF so that you can tell it to translate
> CallID for GRE packets (like you can tell it to translate port for
> TCP/UDP).

sounds reasonable. but i have no idea how coplicated gre is or what it 
takes to translate callIDs.

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