Re: 2.6 IPSEC + SNAT

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On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:41, Mitsuru KANDA / çç å wrote:
> At Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:10:52 +0200,
> Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <linux-net@24x7linux.com> wrote:
> ...
> > To the best of my knowledge you can NAT IPsec traffic if the outer
> > transformation is ESP and not AH. NAT traversal seems to be only
> > necessary if you do AH or ESP+AH, because AH headers also covers IP
> > packet headers, and any change in them render the checksums bad.
> Not true.
> 
> IPesc NAT Traversal is only for ESP.
> (and for IKE packets)
> 
> see draft-ietf-ipsec-udp-encaps-06.txt

What is true, however, is that you can NAT IPSec traffic without
resorting to NAT-Traversal (ESP over UDP).

Do this requires the use of "virtual IPs" (supported with Super FreeSWAN
and SSH.COM's Windows IPSec client).

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

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