nat: T6345: source NAT port mapping "fully-random" is superfluous in Kernel >=5.0 #3507
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Change Summary
random
- In kernel 5.0 and newer this is the same asfully-random
. In earlier kernels the port mapping will be randomized using a seeded MD5 hash mix using source and destination address and destination port.https://git.netfilter.org/nftables/commit/?id=fbe27464dee4588d906492749251454
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