Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:06:10 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Matthew Ryan <matt@overdose.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port Forwarding FreeBSD 4.7_Release Message-ID: <3E7298A2.5080904@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <C03BA210-567F-11D7-8E90-0030654886A6@overdose.com> References: <C03BA210-567F-11D7-8E90-0030654886A6@overdose.com>
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Matthew Ryan wrote: > > 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? I don't fully understand the question. What exactly do you mean by "from home"? Is the mail server behind the firewall? You can port forward/reroute just about anything to anywhere, with enough time and patience. But there's not enough information in the statement you just made for anyone to help you much. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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