[HECnet] Idea for the bridge

[Johnny Billquist]

Sampsa Laine wrote:
I figured I might just add some kind of identifier to the packet, and just grab the source address of the packet and use it as the new address, every time. Would this not work?

Well, you need to change the current code, since it don't work that way.
Also, you need to figure out which "old" source the packet came from, so that you don't change the source for the wrong other endpoint.

At my end, the bridge is talking to about 12 different other ends...

	Johnny

Sampsa
On 25 Aug 2008, at 09:48, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
OK, I'll have a go at it later on today if possible, this literally should not be TOO difficult to code in.

Oh, it should definitely be easy. The data receive and data transmit are located in very few places.
There are some trickery in there that you additionally need to maybe think about, such as the code that tries to avoid receiving the same packets that are sent out.
Also, if you later plan to add functionality to enable sending meta-data, such as IP address changes, you need to change the contents of the packets, remove the verification of source address of data, maybe add some handling to make sure that address changes packets really are received (remember, this is all UDP).
There might be some other things to think about as well. Can't think of anything offhand, but one never knows... :-)

      Johnny

Sampsa
On 25 Aug 2008, at 09:27, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've had an idea for improving the usability and security of the bridge: Encryption.
Now I realise that we're not dealing with a massively high-security installation here with
with HECnet but please hear me out :)

Gha! Feel free.
But I don't really want to fool around with that. My aim was to get something rather simple, that was easy to diagnose when problems occur. :-)

So I'll stick with my version for now. If someone else hacks something together, I might install it if it don't add much overhead to the data.

    Johnny