transparent ident conntracking?

[Armando J. Escalante]

Easy question, how can I get off this list?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: "Tom Marshall" <tommy@home.tig-grr.com>
Cc: <netfilter@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: transparent ident conntracking?


> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:18:08PM -0800, Tom Marshall wrote:
> > There is an ident daemon named pimpd which provides this functionality.
> > http://cats.meow.at/~peter/pimpd.html
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:24:36AM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> > > is there any solution/anything planned for transparently forwarding
> > > ident/auth (RFC 1413, RFC 931) requests through NAT?
>
> You didn't understand my intention.
>
> pimpd - like oidentd, like midentd like a bunch of others does
> the following:
>
> It runs on the masquerading hosts, accepts connections there,
> looks if requests are for masqueraded connections and forwards
> the request then NON-transparently to the client host via using
> some proprietary protocol.
> This means, you have to use the same identd on the masquerading
> machine and on the client machines, because else they don't
> understand each other.
>
> But if I want to run pidentd on the client machines for example,
> then I have no chance to do this, because it doesn't know anything
> about non-transparently forwarding.
>
>
> regards,
>    Mario
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