Re: icmp problem

From: Arne (arne_woerner_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/11/05

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    Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:57:23 -0700 (PDT)
    To: george roman <thewolfro@yahoo.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
    
    

    --- george roman <thewolfro@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > hi i have a problem with my icmp, i have a router that
    > performs nat. i cannot ping to internet hosts from
    > more than one stations situated behind NAT at once. if
    > i want to ping from another station i have to stop the
    > ping that was initiated from the first host, and after
    > a few seconds i can ping from another station.i've
    > checked firewll and i have no ipfw rules that could
    > stop icmp traffic. where should i continue my search
    > and what can i do to resolv this problem. i really
    > have to get ping wrking from more than one stations at
    > once.
    >
    Hi!

    I would guess, that ICMP packets do not have a port number (just a
    request/response id), so that the NAT cannot distinguish multiple
    ICMP packet sources (I mean: The response from the ICMP requestee
    cannot be mapped back to the appropriate ICMP requester).

    Hmm... I just think, that (if you have multiple ICMP requestees)
    the NAT could be able to map back the ICMP requester IP by the IP
    of the ICMP requestee. But I do not know, how your router works...

    Maybe your computer-pool could elect an ICMP-master, who
    coordinates all the ICMP traffic through the NAT.

    Bye
    Arne

                    
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