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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:29:54 -0600 From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu> In-reply-to: <CALFTrnNTpBk6A-dOsi2FH3DQ8-EeDSoPXvvNyj2XpHLTmC7srg@mail.gmail.com> To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, I2 IPv6 working group <wg-ipv6@internet2.edu> Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: > 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. Regardless of what one thinks of v6 NAT, having a v6 REDIRECT target in linux is long overdue. (trying to do it with tproxy hackery is really a mess) Dale
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