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SONATA - SCTP Over NAT Adaptation

Downloads

• Alias_sctp NAT Module
• Automatic test utilities for SCTP NATs
• Wireshark VTUN Packet Decoder Patch

Alias_sctp NAT Module

Alias_sctp is a patch for libalias that works with ipfw to provide NAT Support for SCTP associations.

• Current

  The alias_sctp module has been incorporated into the FreeBSD Head source tree as of February 7 2009, SVN Revision 188294

• Version 0.2.x

  Release of alias_sctp adding support for:

  • Newly created ASCONF (AddIP) formatted packets
  • Creating and sending AbortM/ErrorM packets
  • Per-port packet forwarding
  • Dynamically configurable NAT parameters via sysctl interface
  • ipfw interface to SCTP NAT
  • Optional tracking of association global IP addresses
  • New for version 0.2.2
    • Man page (man 8 alias_sctp)
    • Change change of some default values
    • Minor bug fix for handling OOTB aborts
  
  To Do
  • IPv6 support
  
  Downloads
  • README
  • INSTALL
  • Patch
  • Doxygen generated documentation (HTML) (PDF)
  • CAIA Technical Report TR081128A - Design and implementation details
  
  
• Version 0.1 (Initial release)
  Downloads
  • Patch
  • CAIA Technical Report TR080618A - Design and implementation details.
  • Doxygen generated documentation.

Automatic test utilities for SCTP NATs

As part of the development of the FreeBSD kernel SCTP NAT implementation, alias_sctp, some versatile automated functionality testing utilities have been developed. These utilities are not specific to alias_sctp, and may be used to test any SCTP NAT implementation.

• SCTP NAT test utilities
• CAIA Technical Report 081128B - Test utilities design and technical documentation

Wireshark VTUN Packet Decoder Patch

A Wireshark v0.99.7 patch that adds support for recursive decoding of of VTun encoded UDP datagrams. The source code should work with other versions of Wireshark/Ethereal as well.

• Version 0.1
  • Patch
  • CAIA Technical Report TR080111A - Documentation and installation instructions (Please note that a copy of this report is included in the patch)