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From: Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com>
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Subject: Re: how to configure a FreeBSD firewall to pass IPSec?
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:50:44PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com> writes:
> 
> > I have a FreeBSD box acting as a firewall and NAT gateway
> > 
> > I would like to set it up to transparently pass IPSec packets -- I have
> > an IPSec VPN client running on another machine, connecting to a remote network.
> > 
> > Is there a way to do this?  I can't find any hints in the man pages.
> 
> It's impossible.  IPSEC can't be passed through a NAT.
> 
> The best you could do would be to terminate the tunnel on the gateway itself.

Ok, now I'm confused.  The same client (Cisco VPN 3.5 on Windows) works
through a LinkSys router / NAT gateway (a BEFSR81) at a different location.
The LinkSys even has a friendly little check-box to allow IPSec pass-through.

I would like the FreeBSD gateway to work the same way as the LinkSys.