[dccp] Re: RFC - DCCP and NAT

["David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>]

From: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 14:35:27 +1200

> > Aren't the ports outside the IP header, inside the DCCP header and
> > changed during NAT?
> > 
> I'm having a bad day today aren't I?
> 
> That will break my scheme as mine will only work if you have only one
> machine doing DCCP so no port translation needed....
> 
> OK. I guess either back to my original scheme and extend to ports as
> well... or why don't we just do NAT properly as Dave has already
> suggested.

Since eliding the IPV4 addresses from checksumming was mentioned, if
this is ever revisited for some reason you might want to go
investigate why they were included in the pseudo-header in the first
place for TCP, UDP, et al. :-)