Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:19:08 -0800 (PST) From: The Bean <beantaxi@yahoo.com> To: Micheal Patterson <micheal@tsgincorporated.com>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: natd.conf problem (was: natd problem (but close!) ) Message-ID: <20031226231908.45142.qmail@web40405.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <bd5f01c3cc04$635a65b0$0201a8c0@dredster>
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> You're getting the idea. You're trying to set up a static nat configuration > instead of a dynamic nat. Dynamic NAT uses one IP for all traffic from the > internal systems. Perhaps I should've stated it this way first, my bad. For > Static Nat setups, a gateway has to have the redirected IP associated with > it's external nic. It's best if this is an aliased IP so that no traffic to > the gateway is lost. Then redirect that address to the internal system. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html > specifically, section 19.13.5 Address Redirection describes this best. Indeed, from 19.3.5 (which I just checked) . . . "The external IP addresses on the natd machine must be active and aliased to the external interface." I'm sure I read this section. Since that quote was right at the end, I'm also sure I got lost before I got to that part . . . but since I checked that section off my list, I probably never reread it. Anyway, I took a stab at this a while ago, and sure enough, it fixed the problem. "Your bad"? I beg to differ -- you're the guy who fixed this!!! And it's been bugging me for weeks. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much Micheal. - The Bean > "Address redirection is useful if several IP addresses are available, yet > they must be on one machine. With this, natd(8) can assign each LAN client > its own external IP address. natd(8) then rewrites outgoing packets from the > LAN clients with the proper external IP address and redirects all traffic > incoming on that particular IP address back to the specific LAN client. This > is also known as static NAT" > > > -- > > Micheal Patterson > Network Administration > TSG Incorporated > 405-917-0600 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
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