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Revision tags: release/12.4.0, release/13.1.0, release/12.3.0
# 3a96a25d 27-May-2021 Lutz Donnerhacke <[email protected]>

libalias: Switch to SPLAY trees

Current data structure is using a hash of unordered lists. Those
unordered lists are quite efficient, because the least recently
inserted entries are most likely to

libalias: Switch to SPLAY trees

Current data structure is using a hash of unordered lists. Those
unordered lists are quite efficient, because the least recently
inserted entries are most likely to be used again. In order to avoid
long search times in other cases, the lists are hashed into many
buckets. Unfortunatly a search for a miss needs an exhaustive
inspection and a careful definition of the hash.

Splay trees offer a similar feature - almost O(1) for access of the
least recently used entries), and amortized O(ln(n) - for almost all
other cases. Get rid of the hash.

Now the data structure should able to quickly react to external
packets without eating CPU cycles for breakfast, preventing a DoS.

PR: 192888
Discussed with: Dimitry Luhtionov
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30516
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30536
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30844

(cherry picked from commit 935fc93af157dee352eb4b6c83f8a2a9e7fd9a4e)
(cherry picked from commit d261e57deacb0d00d9e827447f235df83dda3e3a)
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(cherry picked from commit 4060e77f49d1b9fd2254f3f4da94fd64fce83f72)

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# 78d515b2 25-May-2021 Lutz Donnerhacke <[email protected]>

libalias: Restructure

Clean up the database handling in order to switch to more efficient
data structures. The development of this patch was artificially split
in to many small steps to ease review

libalias: Restructure

Clean up the database handling in order to switch to more efficient
data structures. The development of this patch was artificially split
in to many small steps to ease reviewing.

- Common search terms
- Separate fully qualified search
- Separate table for partial links
- Cleanup _FindLinkIn
- Factor out the outgoing search function
- Factor out a common idiom to return found links
- Reorder incoming links by grouping of common search terms
- Remove LSNAT from outgoing search
- Group internal structure semantically
- Separate table for PPTP
- Use AliasRange instead of PORT_BASE
- Remove temporary state deleteAllLinks from global struct
- Avoid uninitialized expiration

Discussed with: Dimitry Luhtionov
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30568
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30569
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30570
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30571
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30572
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30573
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30574
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30575
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30580
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30581
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30604
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30582

(cherry picked from commit d41044ddfdbc2a026570cae11d5fc2e18f5e4b92)
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Revision tags: release/13.0.0, release/12.2.0, release/11.4.0, release/12.1.0, release/11.3.0, release/12.0.0, release/11.2.0, release/10.4.0, release/11.1.0, release/11.0.1, release/11.0.0, release/10.3.0, release/10.2.0, release/10.1.0, release/9.3.0, release/10.0.0, release/9.2.0, release/8.4.0, release/9.1.0, release/8.3.0_cvs, release/8.3.0, release/9.0.0, release/7.4.0_cvs, release/8.2.0_cvs, release/7.4.0, release/8.2.0, release/8.1.0_cvs, release/8.1.0, release/7.3.0_cvs, release/7.3.0, release/8.0.0_cvs, release/8.0.0, release/7.2.0_cvs, release/7.2.0, release/7.1.0_cvs, release/7.1.0, release/6.4.0_cvs, release/6.4.0, release/7.0.0_cvs, release/7.0.0, release/6.3.0_cvs, release/6.3.0, release/6.2.0_cvs, release/6.2.0, release/5.5.0_cvs, release/5.5.0, release/6.1.0_cvs, release/6.1.0, release/6.0.0_cvs, release/6.0.0, release/5.4.0_cvs, release/5.4.0, release/4.11.0_cvs, release/4.11.0, release/5.3.0_cvs, release/5.3.0, release/4.10.0_cvs, release/4.10.0, release/5.2.1_cvs, release/5.2.1, release/5.2.0_cvs, release/5.2.0, release/4.9.0_cvs, release/4.9.0, release/5.1.0_cvs, release/5.1.0, release/4.8.0_cvs, release/4.8.0, release/5.0.0_cvs, release/5.0.0, release/4.7.0_cvs, release/4.6.2_cvs, release/4.6.2, release/4.6.1, release/4.6.0_cvs, release/4.5.0_cvs, release/4.4.0_cvs, release/4.3.0_cvs, release/4.3.0, release/4.2.0, release/4.1.1_cvs
# 642e43b3 26-Jul-2000 Archie Cobbs <[email protected]>

Add address translation support for RTSP/RTP used by RealPlayer and
Quicktime streaming media applications.

Add a BUGS section to the man page.

Submitted by: Erik Salander <[email protected]>


Revision tags: release/4.1.0, release/3.5.0_cvs
# 55a39fc5 20-Jun-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <[email protected]>

Added true support for PPTP aliasing. Some nice features include:

- Multiple PPTP clients behind NAT to the same or different servers.

- Single PPTP server behind NAT -- you just need to redirect

Added true support for PPTP aliasing. Some nice features include:

- Multiple PPTP clients behind NAT to the same or different servers.

- Single PPTP server behind NAT -- you just need to redirect TCP
port 1723 to a local machine. Multiple servers behind NAT is
possible but would require a simple API change.

- No API changes!

For more information on how this works see comments at the start of
the alias_pptp.c.

PacketAliasPptp() is no longer necessary and will be removed soon.

Submitted by: Erik Salander <[email protected]>
Reviewed by: ru
Rewritten by: ru
Reviewed by: Erik Salander <[email protected]>

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# 91cc2995 05-Apr-2000 Ruslan Ermilov <[email protected]>

Minor spelling fixes.


Revision tags: release/4.0.0_cvs, release/3.4.0_cvs, release/3.3.0_cvs, release/3.2.0
# 7d96f4ef 27-Feb-1999 Brian Somers <[email protected]>

Version 3.0: January 1, 1999
- Transparent proxying support added.
- PPTP redirecting support added based on patches
contributed by Dru Nelson <[email protected]>.

Submitted by:

Version 3.0: January 1, 1999
- Transparent proxying support added.
- PPTP redirecting support added based on patches
contributed by Dru Nelson <[email protected]>.

Submitted by: Charles Mott <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: release/3.1.0, release/3.0.0, release/2.2.8, release/2.2.7
# fb9cd36d 24-May-1998 Atsushi Murai <[email protected]>

Primary verison of NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Now you can connect Windows
DOMAIN as DOMAIN user through NAT function. See also RFC1002 for
futher detail of SMB structure.

Submitted by: Atsushi Murai <amur

Primary verison of NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Now you can connect Windows
DOMAIN as DOMAIN user through NAT function. See also RFC1002 for
futher detail of SMB structure.

Submitted by: Atsushi Murai <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: release/2.2.6
# 8ddc51bc 09-Jan-1998 Eivind Eklund <[email protected]>

Teach libalias to work with IPFW firewalls (controlled by a flag).

Obtained from: Yes development tree (+ 10 lines of patches from
Charles Mott, original libalias author)


Revision tags: release/2.2.5_cvs
# 59354a4e 06-Sep-1997 Brian Somers <[email protected]>

Upgrade to 2.4 (Fix -PKT_ALIAS_UNREGISTERED_ONLY)
Submitted by: Charles Mott <[email protected]>

Add __libalias_version so that ppp can derive the
correct library name for dlopen()


# 4fe071a9 11-Aug-1997 Brian Somers <[email protected]>

Fix file descriptor leak.

Submitted by: Charles Mott <[email protected]>
Identified by: Gordon Burditt


# 3efa11bb 03-Aug-1997 Brian Somers <[email protected]>

Update to version 2.2. Only the PacketAlias*()
functions should now be used. The old 2.1 stuff is
there for backwards compatability.
Submitted by: Charles Mott <[email protected]>