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Re: Source port randomisation on NetBSD?



On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 01:55:27PM +0200,
 Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> You can use ipnat on an individual host as well (implementing "PAT",
> or Port Address Translation, rather than NAT).

As a way of obfuscating the source port number, it seems a very
baroque technique. 

Certainly, choosing the source port number should be done by
the kernel, not by a third-party.




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