Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:22:52 -0400 (EDT) From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipv6 network addresses Message-ID: <199806021522.LAA21260@brain.zeus.leitch.com> In-Reply-To: Chrisy Luke's message of "Tue, June 2, 1998 11:10:02 %2B0100" regarding "Re: ipv6 network addresses" id <19980602111002.31706@flix.net> References: <199806012000.QAA14487@gta.gta.com> <19980602092305.52419@flix.net> <19980602105525.36962@deepo.prosa.dk> <19980602111002.31706@flix.net>
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[ On Tue, June 2, 1998 at 11:10:02 (+0100), Chrisy Luke wrote: ] > Subject: Re: ipv6 network addresses > > Philippe Regnauld wrote (on Jun 02): > > Good NAT solutions use a pool of addresses (i.e.: Cisco), > > where hosts seem to come from different addresses each time). > > This also allow for semi-permanent "two-way" setups, allowing > > for example ftp back-connect and other horrible things transparently. > > Where's the FreeBSD implementation then? :-) Darren Reed's IP-Filter + NAT package does this quite nicely (though I've never actually proven that there's some "randomness" to the source address used -- though I'd guess with a sufficiently busy set of connections it would appear to be random). -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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