Taciturn

I'm having trouble deciding on a project name for my standalone NAT-PMP gateway. I've decided that acronyms are too immemorable — in particular the obvious choice of "NATPMD" brings back memories of PCMCIA.

Another consideration is that it might have two parts in the near future. So far there is the gateway (router, port-forwarder) daemon, but I also intend to write an agent daemon to allow apps to easily make use of NAT-PMP to get their ports forwarded.

I've come up with a few potential names:

• Boring
• Witchetty
• Napalm
• TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine)

I like the idea of making reference to the opening of holes in firewalls which is where Boring, Witchetty and TBM come from. Napalm is a Samba-esque "similar word" idea. I also thought of Nymph with the client portion being called Satyr, but they leave me without a name for the combination of both.

At the moment Boring is my favourite, but calling the daemon boring-gateway seems a bit dull. I'm certainly open to suggestions.

You can find it now (it works) under the codename "Stallone" in various forms (links subject to change):

• source tarball
• Deb package (i386 for Etch and later, debug package also available)
• Debian source (dsc)
• source repository
• deb packaging source repository

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Updated 2007-10-08: I ended up just calling it stallone. You can find it at http://tedp.id.au/stallone/.