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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:25:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jordan Krushen <jkrushen@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: natd & unknown incoming packet redirection
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809171324310.2759-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <00a801bde104$c1bdc480$0300000a@oblivion.purplemedia.com>

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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jordan Krushen wrote:

> Is it possible to redirect any incoming packets to a machine running nat
> (that don't already have related outgoing sockets) to a specific machine on
> the masqueraded network?  Several applications that attempt to connect to
> random (or multiple) sockets on a remote machine would take several port
> redirections to get them to work.. is there an easier way to simply tell nat
> to send *all* packets with unknown destinations to another machine?

So, set up a static mapping for ALL unmapped ports to one machine?

Kinda defeats the purpose of the firewall, other than IP address
preservation.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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