Re: Completely NAT an ISP: A practical possibility?

[Ramin Alidousti <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:36:33AM -0300, Rodrigo Senra wrote:

> |On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:50:58 -0400
> |Ramin Alidousti <ramin@cannon.eng.us.uu.net> wrote
> | about Re: Completely NAT an ISP: A practical possibility?:
> 
>  >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:22:03PM -0300, Rodrigo Senra wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Just a small note. FTP is one of the protocols that would break...
> 
> Hi,
>   could you care to explain me how it would break ? Since it is working
>   here ;o), I think we are discussing different scenarios

I defer this explanation to the documents available about the NAT
and FTP. You can start with the netfilter documents on the need
for ip_nat_ftp. Also the FTP protocol and more specifically the
PORT command would give you what you're looking for.

>   because of my poor explanation on the matter.

No, not at all.

Ramin

> 
>  But I think I can gain a lot from your explanation.
> 
>  TIA,
>  Senra 
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