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 -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
