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On 12/26/2016 01:44 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 12/26/2016 01:12 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
>> Tuomo Soini <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> What do you mean with NPTv6 ?
> 
>> I assume he wants to use NPT (Network Prefix Translation) to
>> avoid the complications of multihoming systems with multiple
>> IPv6 providers.
> 
> 
> Bit of dyslexia on my part then.
> 
> My personal approach to multiple IPv6 providers is to assign my
> local networks prefixes delegated from one of my provider's routers
> and simply use SNAT when sending traffic out of the other provider.
> That is stateful and supports problem protocols like FTP.
> 
> In Netfilter, NPT is stateless, so it is a pain to use. There is 
> therefore no formal support for NPT in Shorewall6 (the 
> shorewall6-netmap(5) file is no longer usable since the Netfilter 
> rawpost table has been removed). It is possible to configure NTP
> in shorewall-mangle(5) (assuming that your kernel and ip6tables
> support the SNPT and DNPT targets) but there is currently no
> documentation for how to do that.
> 

Correction. If you have kernel version 3.7 or later, then stateful
network mapping is available in Netfilter. It *should* be available
using the shorewall6-netmap(5) file (by omitting the trailing P, O, or
T after SNAT or DNAT), but I must confess that I have not tested it.

- -Tom
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