BCP38 tester?

Mon Apr 1 03:44:11 UTC 2013

On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 22:32 -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> This thought crossed my mind earlier today, when I asked Jeff if IP-forged
> packets would make it through a NAT, outbound.  He said no (I think), but 
> I'm not entirely sure that's right.

Welll - the packets might make it out, and be transmitted into the
Internet, but they would have a legitimate source address, namely an
outside address of the NAT router. A side effect of NAT is to clamp the
source address range of outbound packets to the configured NAT outside
address range.

Regards, K.

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