Re: Sequence number translation explanations.

[Emmanuel Guiton <emmanuel@netlab.hut.fi>]

Harald Welte wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:00:01PM +0200, Emmanuel Guiton wrote:
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>>Hi!
>>
>>I need to translate sequence numbers between the two networks that are 
>>separated by the firewall. In fact, I just need to translate on of them 
>>(so tcph->ack_seq in one direction, and tcph->seq in the opposite 
>>direction).
>>I found the ip_nat_seq stucture and the ip_nat_seq_adjust function but I 
>>do not understand them. Particularly this "correction_pos", what is it?
>>
>>Could someone provide me with some explanations?
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>It is for inserting/removing bytes from a TCP stream, as needed with NAT
>of protocols like FTP (IP address printed in ASCII has different length,
>compare strlen('1.1.1.1') to strlen('255.255.255.255').
>
>correction_pos is the position (sequence number) where the
>addition/subtraction occurred, and offset is the number of bytes added
>(positive) or removed (negative).
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Ok, then it does not fit my problem. I will operate the change like for 
the TCP port number.
Thanks!

           Emmanuel