At 04:31 PM 5/2/01 +1000, Ben Nagy wrote:
>I was just testing some strange NAT stuff, and I noticed that both Windows
>NT4 and Linux (2.2.14) don't seem to care about source IP addresses for ICMP
>echo-replies.
Consider yourself lucky you didn't get the infamous BSOD.. (Or is that a
feature now?) :)
>For example, sitting on the outside, I would ping an inside host, and the
>reply would come back from the outside IP address of the router. Ping,
>however, didn't care and reported 0% packet loss.
I'm a little confused here Ben.. Which device, Linux, NT or the Router was
performing the NAT?? (or each one?)
>Has anyone else noticed this? Is it just me, or is that a bizarre
>implementation choice? It certainly gave me the absolute "what the (*^(&???"
>heebie-jeebies.
I'm sure this is mild compared to the plethora of other "features" Windows
has :)
Cheers,
Chris.
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