RE: issue 3: nat traversal

Paul Hoffman / VPNC <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mobike
Message-ID <p06200712bdee81da1a80@[10.20.30.249]>
At 8:37 PM -0500 12/21/04, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>To clarify, "nat expected" false means "I don't expect *my* address 
>to be rewritten by a NAT".

Ah! That's good, because it is certainly more predictable.

>So an administrator who assigned systems globally unique globally routed ipv4
>addresses, who wanted to avoid nat-like attacks when talking to other systems
>with globally unique globally routed addresses, could clear the "nat expected"
>bit for those addresses on those systems.

That makes it much easier to predict.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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