On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:14:33PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

quoted

It's gone until someone fixes it up into working condition
once more.  It's been broken ever since the first bits
of IPSEC dst cache infrastructure went in.

Also netfilter has a static NAT too these days, so it doesn't 
seem to be very useful to have another one.

yes and no. 

From a functionality point of view: yes.  

From a performance point of view, there are applications for really dumb
static NAT where you don't want to pull all the dependencies from
ip_conntrack over ip_tables.

-Andi

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