Re: NetBIOS dgm NAT Helper

[Rafa Garrido <rgarrido.l@gmail.com>]

On 9/17/05, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 14:01 +0200, Rafa Garrido wrote:
> > On 9/17/05, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> > > Thank you but I don't think this helps.  It looks like it is for the
> > > name service rather than the datagram service.  I would think such a
> > > help would need to rewrite the embedded IP in the NetBIOS header and
> > > recalculate any checksumming - John
> >
> > Sorry, have you tested this module?
> > http://suif.stanford.edu/~csapuntz/ip_nat_netbios.c
> > The only thing is that this module don't consider if it is a NetBios
> > package or no, assumes that if it comes from udp-port 138 is a NetBios
> > package.
> >
> <snip>
> Thanks.  That looks like what we need.  What is its status within
> netfilter? Is it being considered for inclusion? Is it available with
> netfilter's blessing and support or is it just something that someone
> put together for their own needs but is unmaintained and unsupported?
> Thanks again - John

Hi John, this module is outside netfilter, and the only support is by
its author.
Greetings