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SubjectRe: NAT counting
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:46:44AM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is Linux being fixed to prevent this?
>
>
> "how to remotely count the number of machines hiding behind a NAT box"
> <http://www.research.att.com/%7Esmb/papers/fnat.pdf> /
>
Not a problem. The purpose of NAT isn't to "hide" stuff, but
to share an ipv4 address. If you need more than that, let a
firewall mangle your packets in interesting ways.
You can probably do that with linux if you really want to...

Helge Hafting

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