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RE: IPSec, Nokia MP10.

From: Jim Linklater <Jim.Linklater_at_dtsl.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:46:15 +1300
Message-ID: <D3231F6B7F53D31191C80000C056E4E307C3C6@WGTNES>

>
> > Well I have tried 5.3 and although it got me over one
> hurdle there was a
>
> Is it hard too get it this?

Yes - many phone calls/emails and many dead ends.

>
>
> > The response from the supplier was "it won't work over a
> NAT connection".
> > If you are building your own solution you can probably work
> around this.
>
> Would this be product specific? I guess I'll have to get
> onto to reading
> some documents.
>
It looks as if it is characteristic of IPSec as per Steve's post

"afaik IPsec will not work over any nat'd
device as it checks the packet headers for mangling (security issue) and
if it finds they have been altered (i.e - by a NAT based connection) it
disgards the packets."

Jim

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