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From: "Leonard Milcin, Jr" <thervoy@post.pl>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laforge@gnumonks.org
Subject: Re: [FWD: NAT counting]
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:49:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E48AB27.20203@post.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DD755978BA8283409FB0087C39132BD1A07CC8@fmsmsx404.fm.intel.com

Luck, Tony wrote:
 > (...)
 > The fact that someone can deduce how many hosts are hidden behind
 > a NAT gateway may, or may not, be a bug ... depending on whether you
 > think that the NAT is supposed to keep this number a secret.  But there
 > (...)

Sometimes it is desirable to hide the true number of hosts behind the 
NAT. For example in home-made Linux NAT Gateways where few people share 
the same internet connections even if ISP doesn't allow sharing 
connection ;)





  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-11  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-10 22:34 [FWD: NAT counting] Luck, Tony
2003-02-11  7:49 ` Leonard Milcin, Jr [this message]
2003-02-11 11:45   ` Harald Welte
     [not found] <DD755978BA8283409FB0087C39132BD1A07CC8@fmsmsx404.fm.intel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-02-10 22:52 ` Andi Kleen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-06 15:35 [Fwd: " Martin Josefsson
2003-02-06 16:09 ` Kevin McConnell
2003-02-09 10:00 ` Harald Welte

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