Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:45:29 +0100 | From | Harald Welte <> | Subject | Re: [FWD: NAT counting] |
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:49:59AM +0100, Leonard Milcin, Jr wrote: > 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 ;)
No doubt. But as I initially stated: I don't want to do this by default. We will give the user a choice [by means of an IPID target in the mangle table].
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