From: Mohamed Eldesoky <eldesoky.lists@gmail.com>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] ip6tables question
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:07:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1403218a05033104077989a922@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050330152316.GH21867@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:23:16 +0200, Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:19:11PM +0900, kesan wrote:
> > When is support NAT table for Ip6tables?
>
> Only over my dead body. We will never implement ipv6-to-ipv6 network
> address translation as long as I have any say in netfilter/iptables
> development. NAT is evil and causes horrible breakage of end-to-end on
> the internet. IPv6 has enough addresses and therefore no justification
> for NAT.
>
> --
> - Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> http://netfilter.org/
> ============================================================================
> "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
> architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
> on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
>
>
>
One of the benefits of IPv6 is that we get ride of NATing, so, don't
think to re-use NATing in IPv6 networks.
--
Mohamed Eldesoky
www.eldesoky.net
RHCE
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2005-03-30 15:23 ` [netfilter-core] ip6tables question Harald Welte
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