ping between nated hosts

[Christian Lyra]

Hi,

>  >
>  > I´m using switch mode, and hosts B and C has IndirectMode enabled.
>  > Host A is in listen only mode (no ConnectTo set), hosts B and C
>  > connects to A.  Everything works almost as expected... B and C
>  > connects to A, and they can ping each other, but ONLY after each
>  > other learns the other MAC thru A. What I mean is: if I start A,
>  > B, C, and try to ping C from B, ping will fail, but if I send a
>  > ping to A from C, then B will be able to ping C as it will learn
>  > the MAC of C thru A. If there´s no traffic between the hosts for a
>  > while, then the arp entries will expire from arp tables and the
>  > problem will happen again.
>
>  This is probably caused by NAT or other stateful firewall rules. Try
> adding TCPOnly = yes to your host config files, that should solve the
> problem.

Indeed... this solves the problem but Statefull firewall rules should be 
satisfied with a short "PingInterval", shouldnt it? I would like to not 
use tcp if possible.



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