RE: Port preservation

I was only providing an example, for the sake of answering a posted
question, of why a static one-to-one port mapping might be desired in a
NAT, not to justify why an application might expect a source port to be
a standard server port.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rosenberg
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 11:44 PM
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Cc: 'Cullen Jennings'; 'Yutaka Takeda'; 'Midcom'; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [midcom] Port preservation



Christopher A. Martin wrote:

> Hi all,
> The only reason that I can think of, that may be a good reason, is to
> provide the appearance that a client is communicating directly with a
> server on a standard server port (for that professional, I'm a big
> organization look and feel). Some applications do check for this for
> paranoid security reasons, but they are less common.

For what application does the protocol expect the SOURCE port to be a 
standard server port? None that I can think of.

-Jonathan R.

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