[JDEV] NAT Issues

Bernd Eckenfels lists at lina.inka.de
Sun Dec 17 15:12:53 CST 2000


On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:59:13PM -0600, Charles Forsythe wrote:
> Why would you not know which port to send to?  The NAT does not change
> the port number, only the IP address.

Of course it does.

Ever wondered what the number in brackets in the output of netstat -M for
Linux is? Dynamic NAT needs to use unique local ports, it chooses them from
the range of the local masq ports, usually above 60000.

Greetings
Bernd




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