Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:47:51 +0000 From: Matthew Ryan <matt@overdose.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port Forwarding FreeBSD 4.7_Release Message-ID: <C03BA210-567F-11D7-8E90-0030654886A6@overdose.com> In-Reply-To: <44isulpjvx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 12:13 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Fact is, natd _only_ redirects from the interface is was told to bind >> to. >> I'm not exactly sure why the packets don't route out and back in when >> you >> try it from inside, but they don't ;( so you always need to test it >> from >> the external interface. > > The reason they don't "route out" is that they are addressed to the > router, so it doesn't bother to forward them outside. > Ok, I understand, this does present me with a bit of a problem however, accessing my mail server from home for example. Can you think of a workaround? Ta Matthew Ryan Matt@overdose.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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