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From: "Henry Su" <henrysu@nttmcl.com>
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Subject: RE: Why is my ipfw(8) ``fwd'' rule to redirect a service to another machine not working?
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I tried localhost, it is an issue for me. It's 4.3 freebSD. Is this a bug?


-----Original Message-----
From: Crist J . Clark [mailto:cjc@FreeBSD.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:19 PM
To: Henry Su
Cc: Julian Elischer; freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Why is my ipfw(8) ``fwd'' rule to redirect a service to
another machine not working?




On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:42:16PM -0800, Henry Su wrote:
> 
> http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.20.shtml
> 
> Is there a way to configure your machine not drop these packets?

I wrote that FAQ entry for people directing packets to another
machine. When you are forwarding the packets to 127.0.0.1, the local
machine, it is not an issue. The packets will be "accepted" by the
system. (But that doesn't mean the application will behave well.)
-- 
"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious."

Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org


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