Re: Action item from yesterday's meeting

Martin,

Melinda suggested that I come up with an example to illustrate that the current
sematics and MIB is problematic for certain types of NATs. I did this with FTP
and PORT command in twice NAT scenario. You claim the FTP example is not real.
That simply is not true. FTP is a common ALG used with NATs and is very real.
That you dont like the FTP ALG would not make the problem go away. There is a
real problem with the MIB, the way it is. And, there is a simple fix to it. 

Hope you understand. Thanks.

regards,
suresh

--- Martin Stiemerling <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Cullen,
> 
> --On Dienstag, 23. November 2004 17:31 Uhr -0800 Cullen Jennings 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> |
> | I have not been participating closely I the group so I may have a complete
> | clueless opinion here but ... It seems that people are continuing to
> | deploy things like twice NAT, if we can make the protocol work in these
> | cases without causing major complexity or big issues to the protocol, why
> | wouldn't we? It seemed to me that Srisuresh was proposing that a few
> 
> Just to make it clear: The MIDCOM MIB already supports twice-NATs and the 
> semantics did so from the beginning.  So in this sense there is anyway no 
> change needed.
> 
> | simple changes could make the protocol be about the same in the case we
> | currently have plus make it usable for a few more cases.
> 
> The case presented do not represent a real case in my opinion.
> 
>   Martin
> 
> |
> |
> | On 11/16/04 10:19 AM, "Melinda Shore" <[email protected]> wrote:
> |
> |> I'm intending to get this issue closed in the next week (or sooner,
> |> if possible).  Juergen and Suresh have presented their concerns, and
> |> if there are other people who have opinions or questions or even
> |> just want to indicate how they're leaning, that would be a big help.
> |>
> |> Thanks,
> |>
> |> Melinda
> |>
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