Re: NAT with unique egress port

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On 28.10.2016 00:41, Rui Santos wrote:
> I believe you may be referring to the --random of the SNAT target.
> 
> Although that is a solution which I will probably take if there is no
> other, there are actually two issues with it:
> 1) AFAIK, it will randomize all egress ports. I would like to keep the
> default behavior of NAT, by tampering with connections as little as
> possible. On the example I provided, only the connection initiated by
> server2, gets a random egress port. server1 connection egress port
> will be the same as the origin source port.
> 
> 2) Random does not necessarily mean unique. What will happen if
> client1 and client2, randomly get the same egress port for different
> destination IP's? Will --random consider this valid? If it will, I end
> up with the same issue (although rare, true) of having two clients
> with the same egress port.
> 
> Is there any way to accomplish this?

I don't know that, sorry. The stuff from that man page is all I know
about this issue.

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