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Date:      Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:52:27 -0600
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        elof2@sentor.se
Cc:        "freebsd-net" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: IPFW blocked my IPv6 NTP traffic
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 10:50, elof2@sentor.se wrote:
> 
> Not that this helps this thread to move on, but just to clarify:
> 
> In this case, the NAT that would introduce the randomized src port would 
> be *your* NAT, not a NAT at pool.ntp.org.
> 
> 
> Deny UDP [2604:a880:800:10::bc:c004]:123 [2001:470:1f11:1e8::2]:58285 in
> via gif0
> 
> The blocked response came from port 123 just as expected.
> 
> If the client truly sent out a query from src port 123, then it must have 
> been your NAT that picked a free random port to use for its outgoing 
> connection, i.e. port 58285.
> The server then respond back to your NAT-IP 2001:470:1f11:1e8::2 at port 
> 58285.
> Your NAT should receive the packet, match it against its NAT table, find
> that it has indeed an ongoing UDP connection for that particular flow, so 
> it rewrites the dst IP and dst port to your original internal IP address 
> and original port (123) and send it back to the client.
> 
> /Elof
>

There's no NAT involved with my IPv6.


-- 
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam member
  feld@FreeBSD.org



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