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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:41:08 +0100
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>, Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: one slight glitch in i4bispp
Message-ID:  <20000112084108.B97744@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <200001120042.AAA01200@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:42:46AM %2B0000
References:  <marc@bowtie.nl> <200001120042.AAA01200@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:42:46AM +0000, Brian Somers wrote:
> >  
> > > ppp(8) :-)
> > > 
> > > If you enable -nat and -auto, ppp will keep the interface addresses 
> > > previously assigned and NAT them for you.  This means that the 
> > > ``first connection'' will end up being NAT'd from the start (it's 
> > > bound to the old address but the peer has only ever seen the new 
> > > address).
> > > 
[...]
> > 
> > But when the connection times out and I get another dynamic IP nr, how 
> > is my tcp connection going to survive, isn't the socket on telnet.domain.com
> > bound to my old (dynamic) ip nr?
> 
> No, well not if the initial telnet packet caused the ``ppp -nat'' 


Since the initial topic was i4bisppp I'm wondering how one can
extrapolate ppp -nat to kernel sppp and i4bisppp.

> process to dial.  Because it decides based on the unNATd packet, it 
> brings the link up and then (after IPCP has agreed another IP number) 
> sends the packet through the NAT engine.  telnet.domain.com only ever 
> sees packets from the new IP number whereas the telnet process is 
> bound to the old IP number.
> 
> Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
> 
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de


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