[147021] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv6 NPT and NAT for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Wed Nov 30 15:15:10 2011
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:14:07 -0500
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, I2 IPv6 working group <wg-ipv6@internet2.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
For those who missed it, Linux is adding NAT for IPv6 to netfilter:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg19979.html
Along with tradition SNAT, and DNAT targets most of us are familiar
with, a new NETMAP target is included that implements NPT (network
prefix translation).
I for one am happy to see this; despite not wanting to see people NAT
IPv6 as the norm, having the NETMAP target will largely replace the
use of SNAT and MASQUERADE for many deployments, while keeping those
tools for the times when traditional NAT is desirable.
--
Ray Soucy
Epic Communications Specialist
Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526
Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System
http://www.networkmaine.net/
