On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Ray Soucy wrote:
> For those who missed it, Linux is adding NAT for IPv6 to netfilter: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg19979.html > > Along with tradition SNAT, and DNAT targets most of us are familiar > with, a new NETMAP target is included that implements NPT (network > prefix translation). > > I for one am happy to see this; despite not wanting to see people NAT > IPv6 as the norm, having the NETMAP target will largely replace the > use of SNAT and MASQUERADE for many deployments, while keeping those > tools for the times when traditional NAT is desirable. Regardless of what one thinks of v6 NAT, having a v6 REDIRECT target in linux is long overdue. (trying to do it with tproxy hackery is really a mess) Dale
