From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 10 7:55:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (fepout3.telus.net [199.185.220.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177D337B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from woodsie ([161.184.241.49]) by priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.11 201-229-116-111) with SMTP id <20001110155535.UBMJ19691.priv-edtnes11-hme0.telusplanet.net@woodsie> for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:55:35 -0700 From: "Dave Woods" To: Subject: RE: Bidirectional nat? Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:03:10 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200011100336.eAA3aS6197601@saturn.cs.uml.edu> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was thinking something similar like forwarding incomming connections to the firewall on a certain port to an internal IP. I just wanted to make sure that this was possible as I do not have access to the firewall to test it on right now. thx -----Original Message----- From: Albert D. Cahalan [mailto:acahalan@cs.uml.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 8:36 PM To: kudos@telusplanet.net Subject: Re: Bidirectional nat? > Is there any way to do bidirectional nat on FreeBSD? or > will I have to go to something like OpenBSD? ... > well what we have right now is a freebsd firewall/nat box > with multiple NT servers behind it what we want to do is > allow software outside of the network to communicate with > one of the NT boxes (for example vnc). Is this possible? > To my understanding it is possible to route information to > a certain IP internally but I do not think it will route > back out. I dunno maybe I am on glue :) There are several options, depending on exactly what you want to do. Let me see if I got this right: You sit at a machine with a normal IP address, on the net. There is a NAT box on the net too. Behind the NAT box are NT servers you want to reach. These NT servers could reach you via the NAT box. You want to initiate a connection to the NT servers. Of course, from your viewpoint, the NT servers share one IP. Correct? Hopefully you can set VNC port numbers on the client. If not, the problem gets harder but can still be solved. Now, since you might not love my solution, I'll wait for you to say you really need it. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message