RE: To address or NAT to address?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

At 17:30 01.12.99 -0800, Dan Kohn wrote:


>Specific processes can be and almost always are identified by a port number.
>Just as TCP connections are identified as a 4-tuple of sender and receiver
>IP address and port number, an application layer session would be identified
>by a 4-tuple of sender and receiver FQDN and port.

Don't forget that NAT changes port numbers too.
(Most NAT boxes are Portmapper NATs.)

                      Harald A
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