Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 20:15:26 -0500 From: "Kevin Bogac" <kbogac@ibm.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: natd question Message-ID: <012701be9827$40a2cc30$0701a8c0@ibm.net> References: <001c01be9766$cf4979f0$0701a8c0@ibm.net> <008901be97ce$b9c97f40$f9fbf8cf@megared.net.mx>
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Thanks! I misunderstood what I read. I though I only needed one of the kernel options not all four. I guess I should learn to ask questions sooner. Must be a gender thing. Oh well, I didn't want to keep all of my hair forever anyway. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alejandro Ramírez <ales@megared.net.mx> To: Kevin Bogac <kbogac@ibm.net>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 9:42 AM Subject: RE: natd question > > Hi, > > You should try to recompile your kernel with the following options > > options IPFIREWALL > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE > options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT > options IPDIVERT > > The first line includes basic IP Firewall support. Second line configures > ipfw to be able to log accepted or rejected packets. Third line is very > important. It does exactly what it says: accept any connections and packets > from anywhere by default, and the fourth line is for divert pakages to natd. > > Make sure that your machine is acting as a gateway. This can be done by > specifying the line gateway_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf, and also you must to > specify firewall_enable=YES, and in firewall_type=UNKNOWN in /etc/rc.conf, > at this moment natd should work but the firewall is completely open, so you > must close anything you want from now. > > Ales > > I cannot get natd to work. I have searched through all of the information I > can find and my configuration seems correct. If I enable natd the interface > blocks traffic. I'm getting a line in the system messages that says > "/kernel: IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based > forwarding disabled, logging disabled". I built the kernel with the two > additional options. Did I miss something? Does the default rc.firewall work? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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