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From: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM>
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To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
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Subject: Re: Natd only works one way?
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On 5 January, 1998, at 01:27 (GMT)
John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:20:42 -0800, "Daniel \"The Bruce\" Keller"
> <dkeller@psln.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I am having some trouble configuring natd. I have followed all the
> >directions from the man page. if I run natd.test (on 192.168.1.1), it starts
> >up fine, and if I try to ping my ISP (206.99.118.101) from the other machine
> >on my network (192.168.1.2) ping sends the packets, but I never get a
> >reply.On the machine running natd I get "In [ICMP] 192.168.1.2 ->
> >206.99.118.101 aliased to" messages as long as the ping is running, but no
> >other messages. I never get and "Out" messages, so I guess packets from
> >192.168.1.2 are getting out to the internet, but packets from the internet
> >are not getting to 192.168.1.2. Any help with this would be appreciated.
> >thanks,
> >Daniel Keller
>
> Did you set gateway_enable="YES" in rc.conf?

And, what do your ipfw(8) rules look like?
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