[dccp] Re: RFC - DCCP and NAT

[Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net>]

Ian McDonald wrote:
> > Some people use 11.x.x.x, others use other subnet numbers.
> >
> > Determining "behind NAT" is flawed, the whole point is for
> > it to be transparent anyways.
>
>
> Agree - but which is better - flawed and working or perfect and not?
>
> > I think you really need to bite the bullet and start working
> > now on proper NAT deployment for DCCP.  In the time you spend
> > working on half-working hacks you can have most of the firewalls
> > out there fixed.
>
> Disagree - I have no control over people's firewalls and I think I
> could write this patch in a few hours. (Arnaldo could probably write
> in 30 minutes!)

I started working on DCCP connection tracking, so far it properly
tracks connections and state transistions (but I need to recheck
them). NAT should possible in a matter of minutes once connection
tracking is working properly.