Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-22 Thread Keith Moore
> > what's the point of this exercise? > > To try and minimize the damage NATs cause Well, as far as I can tell, you're not doing that to any significant degree. > > to encourage predictable behavior that applications cannot use? > > The functionaly here defined here allow two hosts behind tw

Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-22 Thread Cullen Jennings
On May 18, 2006, at 7:44 PM, Keith Moore wrote: If we change this to "address independent", close to 100% of NATs produced will be non behave compliant. At this point applications will have nothing they can rely on and we will be at the same point we are now and the BEHAVE WG will have bee

Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-18 Thread Keith Moore
If we change this to "address independent", close to 100% of NATs produced will be non behave compliant. At this point applications will have nothing they can rely on and we will be at the same point we are now and the BEHAVE WG will have been reduce to an irrelevant waste of time. what's the

Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-18 Thread Cullen Jennings
On May 15, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: "Keith" == Keith Moore writes: REQ-8: If application transparency is most important, it is RECOMMENDED that a NAT have an "Endpoint independent filtering" behavior. If a more stringent filtering behavior is most important, it is RECOMMENDED

RE: policy enforcement points and management [RE: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)]

2006-05-16 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> On the other hand, there is a proposed WG (they had a BoF at the last > IETF) -- NEA (Network End-point Assessment) which aims to do > something about this space. > > I'd recommend folks interested in it go take a look: > >http://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nea Perhaps this is the solu

RE: policy enforcement points and management [RE: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)]

2006-05-16 Thread Romascanu, Dan \(Dan\)
ts and management [RE: Last > Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP > (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)] > > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > >> From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> Sure

policy enforcement points and management [RE: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)]

2006-05-15 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure. But a policy enforcement point must necessarily be configured; otherwise, how is it going to know what policy to enforce? The policy can be generated automatically from the network con

RE: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-15 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sure. But a policy enforcement point must necessarily be > configured; otherwise, how is it going to know what policy to enforce? The policy can be generated automatically from the network configuration and the authorized hosts and appli

RE: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-15 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, May 15, 2006 12:07:09 PM -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree that separating out the NAT and firewall functions is useful and necessary. Even if the two functions are performed by the same box they should be considered separately. I don't think that t

RE: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-15 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I agree that separating out the NAT and firewall functions is useful and necessary. Even if the two functions are performed by the same box they should be considered separately. I don't think that the idea of zero configuration firewalls should be dismissed. A firewall is simply a policy enforceme

Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-15 Thread Keith Moore
I think that it is important to separate NAT from firewall functionality. One device may provide both functions. But if the intent is to provide only a NAT function,, then Keith is right and transparency needs to be the default. If the intent is to provide a firewall function then all the manag

Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-15 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Keith" == Keith Moore writes: >> REQ-8: If application transparency is most important, it is >> RECOMMENDED that a NAT have an "Endpoint independent filtering" >> behavior. If a more stringent filtering behavior is most >> important, it is RECOMMENDED that a NAT have an "

Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-15 Thread Keith Moore
REQ-8: If application transparency is most important, it is RECOMMENDED that a NAT have an "Endpoint independent filtering" behavior. If a more stringent filtering behavior is most important, it is RECOMMENDED that a NAT have an "Address dependent filtering" behavior.

Re: Last Call: 'NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP' to BCP (draft-ietf-behave-nat-udp)

2006-05-15 Thread Pekka Savola
Hi, I had a flight so I read this. I think the document gives two very bad pieces of advice: turn off all NAT ALGs and remove all NAT state mapping filtering unless you require otherwise for security reasons. Hence, I think wider IETF review seems warranted, and I'd encourage more folks to