From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 26 15:19:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603F216A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from web40405.mail.yahoo.com (web40405.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9871A43D46 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:19:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beantaxi@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031226231908.45142.qmail@web40405.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.139.244.187] by web40405.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:19:08 PST Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:19:08 -0800 (PST) From: The Bean To: Micheal Patterson , freebsd In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: natd.conf problem (was: natd problem (but close!) ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: beantaxi@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:19:10 -0000 > 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/