Re: NAT counting

[Helge Hafting]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:46:44AM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is Linux being fixed to prevent this?
> 
> 
> "how to remotely count the number of machines hiding behind a NAT box" 
> <http://www.research.att.com/%7Esmb/papers/fnat.pdf> /
> 
Not a problem.  The purpose of NAT isn't to "hide" stuff, but
to share an ipv4 address.  If you need more than that, let a
firewall mangle your packets in interesting ways.
You can probably do that with linux if you really want to...

Helge Hafting