Subject: Re: IPNAT with mutant protocols
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/11/2000 13:52:24
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:50:51PM -0400, John Kohl wrote:
> Say I have a hardware box on an internal network which does a mutant IP
> protocol (not TCP or UDP), and I want to send all packets of that
> protocol type which arrive at my NetBSD box from the Internet to it, and
> likewise send all its outgoing packets of that type out to the net.
>
> I didn't see a syntax in my reading of the ipnat(5) man page for mapping
> single IP protocols to/from a host. Does the kernel machinery have this
> capability, and I just need to invent a syntax?
It'll probably work like ICMP works --- only one host at a time can have
a valid ICMP NAT mapping.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>