On 6/28/20 12:54 PM, R.Wieser wrote:
> What are you doing !?   You're spoiling my game !   :-)

Sorry!!!

> Yeah, and thats part of the problem.   Its not the first time I notice
> that people often, without as much as a thought, going for 10-pound
> solutions to hammer a quarter-of-an-inch problem in.   It might work,
> but don't look at the side effects.

~chuckle~

I've used a 10-pound hammer to push in a thumb tack.  But that was an
extremely atypical use of said hammer and I didn't swing it.

The tool, and more importantly, how it's used, is EXTREMELY important.

> It was always my full intention to use the RPi's full TCP/IP
> capablilities, with me just requesting or writing data (and the
> socket taking care of the rest).   I just wanted to make sure that
> the datastreams from the two networks would stay seperate.

Okay.  That sounds like you're headed towards the realm of an
Application Layer Gateway / Proxy.

> Well...  Long ago people wrote messages on /paper/, put them in an
> also paper "envelope" and ....  No, really! :-)

Paper?  I thought it was a stone tablet.

> But seriously, in this context I tried to indicate a place where
> one host could drop a message, and the other could retrieve it -
> without them ever needing to meet.    I just didn't want to be more
> specific than that - simply because I had no idea what could/would
> already be available.

That's what I thought.  But such a drop box / post office is decidedly
different than the ALG that it sounds like you're headed towards.



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