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SubjectRe: [FWD: NAT counting]
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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- Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> http://www.gnumonks.org/
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