Re: [9fans] IL and NAT

[Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>]

> My gut response is bollocks, but is there any reason that IL
> wouldn't work through NAT other than Cisco hasn't written
> the code to handle it? 

If I recall Firewall-1 correctly, you can bodge up support for
rare protocols by specifying some low-level transformation rules:
if (value at offset x) == y, change bytes elsewhere accordingly.
I was only skimming docs at the time, and never got around to
reading it in detail, so I might be completely wrong. Point is,
though, does your Cisco support something similar?

As for it going into the Cisco base product (from which an entire
range of Cisco units are produced), I'd put the chances at approximately
equal to the market: practically none. Even if you gave them the code
for free, they'd have to make sure it didn't break anything else, and
that'd cost them.

steve