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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:20:24 +1000
From:      Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?
Message-ID:  <53DA3488.2050801@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1uqCghJ1in5-Z8Ww6VOALuuqH3R9wFw=wEr5dd3iFbYOw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 30/07/2014 2:54 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> ...
> I would hope that is not the case. While NAT66 is "well known" and has been
> a topic of discussion for years, NPT66 is relatively new. It does share
> many concepts with NAT66 (and, most likely implementations also share
> code), but does not require any state, making it vastly less complex and no
> longer breaks point to point networking. The names look similar, which may
> result in unfortunate confusion, but NPT66 may be the bast solution to a
> real problem and it does not create the issues of NAT66.

NPT66 is a subset of NAT66.

Cheers,
Darren




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