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> It gets into the area of "technical solutions" to fight "administrative policy". Yes, that's exactly the point. Sometimes that's the best course of action av
by d110af5ccf 5y ago
> It gets into the area of "technical solutions" to fight "administrative policy".
Yes, that's exactly the point. Sometimes that's the best course of action available to you. If the userspace implementation were to be deprecated that could pose difficulties.
- zekica 5y agoWhy would it be an issue? Can't you specify localhost as the endpoint and use the proxy to send it where it needs to go? What is the difference between the implementations?
- no_time 5y agoI like to visualize networks as a series of tubes in my head. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but I'm imagining a kernel driver that acts as a separate network interface proxying to localhost as a klein bottle[0] esque object [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
- riobard 5y agoPerformance will take a hit then, which is unfortunate.