Re: Port preservation

Pyda Srisuresh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.midcom
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Port preservation is desirable in some limited cases where applications and
protocols require a certain number to be used for source and/or destination.
ex: IKE-v1 assumes UDP port 500 on both src and dest.

cheers,
suresh
 
--- Yutaka Takeda <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know what the real motivation for NAT designers to 
> implement the port preservation[1] is? Is there an actual service 
> or application that depends on this behavior? I just realized that 
> I know such NATs exist but why...
> 
> [1]
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jennings-midcom-stun-results-00.txt
> 
> Yutaka
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