Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:13:15 -0800 From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com> To: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transparent proxy for connections originating on localhost Message-ID: <142957AC-3000-11D6-A30A-00306544D642@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20020304213713.N87533@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 09:37 PM, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:13:22PM -0800, Jeff Koftinoff wrote:
>>
>> I'm sorry if this is a dumb question (or a duplicate msg), but I am
>> having a weird problem with ipfw. I am using mac-osx, but I know that
>> all the cool ipfw gurus are probably here on freebsd-ipfw.
[snip]
> I have no idea what version of ipfw(8) is running on OS X. Up until
> _very_ recently (way too recently to be in OS X), 'fwd' rules only
> applied to outgoing packets (this is documented in ipfw(8)). When the
> local machine is communicating with itself, packets are never
> outgoing. They would never get 'fwd'ed.
The networking code in Darwin/Mac OS X is FreeBSD 3.[2,3] based. I
think there may have been updates to later 'ipfw' code, but I can't tell
from the CVS logs.
regards,
Justin
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