On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, James Wetterau wrote:

> Dialpad uses a concept that Linux and NT apparently support, called a
> "trigger".  The idea is that an outgoing TCP connection on a
> particular port (in this case, 7175) should be understood to "trigger"
> mapping of particular incoming TCP and UDP connections from the
> destination host of the 7175 packets on different port numbers

that sounds really great. especially if you could then redirect the
ports to the machine that triggered the connections so that any machine
inside would be able to access the service and not have it hardcoded.

will that be adopted by netbsd or are there any disadvantages?

regards,
  shadi