From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 19: 7: 3 2003 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 8AB3737B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6408043FBF for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:07:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2F370Tb009227; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:07:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E7298A2.5080904@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:06:10 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Ryan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port Forwarding FreeBSD 4.7_Release References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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