From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xt_RAWNAT target idea
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:39:06 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801141532210.12915@blackhole.kfki.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801141347190.10906@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Hi Jan,
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > Another issue is IPv6 support. Everyone agrees that we don't
> > want to support IPv6 NAT. So this would have to be removed.
>
> There is a need for IPv6 (conntrackful) NAT actually, just like there is
> for DHCPv6. Hiding hosts (you want websites to know how many devices you
> have?) or when your ISP runs a pay-per-address model.
DHCPv6 is a useful thing but IPv6 NAT is evil. (IPv4) NAT was introduced
to address (i.e. slow down) the depletion of the IPv4 address space.
There is simply no need for such a hack for IPv6.
If someone wants to hide hosts then run a proxy.
Best regards,
Jozsef
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-14 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-13 16:08 xt_RAWNAT target idea Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-13 16:09 ` [xt_RAWNAT 1/3] Make room in the hook priority list Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-13 16:10 ` [xt_RAWNAT 2/3] Extend iptable_raw by POSTROUTING hook Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-13 16:10 ` [xt_RAWNAT 3/3] xt_RAWNAT code Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-13 16:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-13 16:22 ` [xt_RAWNAT] iptables libxt_RAWNAT Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-14 6:04 ` xt_RAWNAT target idea Patrick McHardy
2008-01-14 9:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-14 9:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-14 14:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-14 14:39 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik [this message]
2008-01-14 22:43 ` Amos Jeffries
2008-01-14 15:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-15 6:34 ` Patrick McHardy
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