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

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