Jean-Francois Dive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i was wandering something with PAT: > If you have multiple boxes trying to access the same server on the internet, > going trough the same PAT router, so using the same external ip address: if > the sender stack does Path MTU discovery (most of the stack does now), and > if both hit a smaller MTU in the way, how does the NAT code knows where to > send back the ICMP on the inside of the PAT router .? I believe it does > work, but how ?
The ICMP packet contains the port numbers so you can easily find out which one it's for. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
