Hi,

Thus wrote Fred Baker ([email protected]):

> I do have a problem with one aspect of that, though, which is that you want 
> the mechanism to be the same for stateful translators that will potentially 
> come up up with a different TCP four-tuple per session AND apply to the 
> stateless (configured but no dynamic state, with no port translation) 
> version. With NAT66 as specified, you can do this once and know the values 
> until you have a change of hardware or your company has a change of contract. 

Only if the packets pass the same algorithmic NAT. They may not.

[...]

> If that's not adequate - and no, I don't accept "it's not adequate" as an 
> answer, I'd really like an explanation, because I don't see why not in the 
> stateless case - then I find myself thinking in terms of ICMP or something 
> akin to it. If I could send a datagram that would follow the same path to the 
> same DMZ, perhaps as an anycast or multicast, and get zero or more responses 
> saying "I would have changed your source address to []", would that be 
> adequate?

That would probably be necessary.

regards,
        spz
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