Re: Port preservation

I think you are confusing two things.

One is a client behind a nat speaking to a server on the public side. 
There, I think there are very, very few cases where the source port 
means anything (IKE is the only identified one there).

The other case is a server running behind the NAT (i.e., on the private 
side), which is what you are talking about below. In such a case, I 
think you would use port forwarding configuration on the nat, and so 
port preservation on dynamically created bindings isnt applicable.

-Jonathan R.

Christopher A. Martin wrote:

> I guess I should also state the port that I am describing is a listening
> port (which is often also the source port) of the server being NATted,
> while I am at it.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Christopher A. Martin
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:09 AM
> To: 'Cullen Jennings'; 'Jonathan Rosenberg'
> Cc: 'Yutaka Takeda'; 'Midcom'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [midcom] 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.
> 
>  
> 
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