RE: Port preservation

Ya, clients typically do use random ports, I am only speaking from a
server standpoint (Enterprises don't typically static nat a client).

:)

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Cullen Jennings [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:37 AM
To: [email protected]; Jonathan Rosenberg
Cc: 'Yutaka Takeda'; Midcom; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [midcom] Port preservation

On 4/26/04 7:00 PM, "Christopher A. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> For clarity, common server ports in this example would be HTTP, SMTP,
> FTP, etc.

Well for TCP, the NATs don't muck with ports at all. The clients I have
for
HTTP, SMTP, FTP, also use source ports different than the destination
ports
so that the clients don't have to open a port under 1024 which would
require
them to be running as root.