[147023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 NPT and NAT for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Wed Nov 30 15:25:51 2011
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:24:45 -0800
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
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In a message written on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:14:07PM -0500, Ray Soucy wr=
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> 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.
+1
Long overdue for many different reasons, be they political (stop
the "nat doesn't exist in IPv6 nonsense") or practical, like the
ability to translate IP based services to new addresses. For
instance it might be nice to translate an old DNS server IPv6 address
to a new working DNS server in some situations.
NAT has many more applications than it's most popular RFC1918 PNAT
to one IPv4 address, and IPv6 has been missing out on those other
tools due to the regious nature of the "private address vrs public
address" dogmas for that one, specific NAT application.
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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