[Xorp-hackers] NAT support for XORP

[Kristen Nielsen]

Hi XORP-Hackers.

Thank you for doing this great project - it really thrills me that an 
opensource router project has appeared and got this far already.

I am a Graduate Computer Science student from Univesity of Copenhagen, 
who is looking into doing some work/implementation projects in XORP as a 
part of my next 1-2 projects and eventually for my final thesis.

I am considering to implement a Network Address Translation (NAT) module 
to XORP, but as I understand it, it seems that I need to add 
functionality to the FEA module to be able to change IP-packets that 
flows through the router.

Is there a design plan / roadmap / ideas / thoughts / ? for how the XORP 
project will handle implementation of functionality the requires 
tratment/changs of all packets that belongs to a trafficflow or to 
interfaces, that my NAT project can fit into or take into concideration?

Also if sometime later Virtulisation of the XORP router e.g. with MPLS 
functionality will come up - as I see it the same functionality will be 
needed.

I hope you will comment on this.

Sincerely
Mr. Kristen Nielsen
Copenhagen, Denmark.
krn@krn.dk