On Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 23:06:35 +0200, Jan Hoevers wrote: >Maurice Janssen wrote on 18-9-2007 22:42: >> On Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 02:59:06 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> 3) Router forwards packet to 10.10.10.10#123 WITHOUT changing ANYTHING in >>> the IP headers. >> As mentioned by Jan, that's not gonna work. If you want to forward the >> packet, you need to change the IP address or the NTP server will ignore >> the packet. You might be able to fix this with a lot of trickery, but >> that's not the way normal port forwarding works. >I never said it's not gonna work! Sure it's gonna work, I only said that >the destination address is changed in the IP headers.
That's what I meant to say: you need to change the headers, it won't work when you don't touch the headers (without the extra trickery). Sorry for the confusion. >This is not a trick we're inventing here Maurice, it was described more >than a decade ago in an RFC. It's straightforward and clean, no trickery >involved. I fully agree, I've been doing it for years. Maurice _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
