IPNAT & IPv6

Crist J. Clark cristjc at comcast.net
Tue Jan 4 22:44:42 PST 2005


On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:37:48PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:28:19AM +0900, Hideki Yamamoto wrote:
> > 
> > As far as I have tested pf(packet filter) on FreeBSD 5.3R,
> > NAT function with IPv6 does not work well.  Log says conversion is
> > done.  But source address is not translated.  Though I asked 
> > about it in freebsd-pf mailing list, we have not had any reponses yet.
> 
> I don't think any of our packet filters really support IPv6 NAT at this
> point.

In IPv6, it is spelled "NAP." See,

  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandevelde-v6ops-nap-00.txt

NAT is eevul. Can we please, pretty please leave it with IPv4?
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark at alum.mit.edu


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