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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:03:49 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
To:        "Leander S." <leander.schaefer@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW + Portforwarding
Message-ID:  <20081021040349.GA29232@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <48FCF5DA.5060802@googlemail.com>
References:  <48FCF5DA.5060802@googlemail.com>

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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:19:22PM +0200, Leander S. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set up something like a HotSpot. Goal is it to force 
> unregistred users to get redirected to the Captive Portalsite where 
> they'll be able to agree my licence therms and get some information ... 
> etc. ...
> 
> So fact is I need an IPFW rule which forwards Port 80,443,8080 Traffic 
> to another Port i.e. 8080 --> where my Apache will already wait for 
> serving the Captive Portalsite back to the request.
> 
> So I did read the man and saw something like the fwd rule and the Kernel 
> Option for it - so I added the option - rcompiled the Kernel and gave my 
> Firewall the following fwd rule in an extra script:
> 
>       ${fwcmd} add 01100 fwd ${LAN_IP},8080 tcp from ${LAN} to any 
> 80,443,8080 in via ${LAN_if}

You have to catch it where it is going out and not in. Fwd only works
when packets are out bound.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org



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