From owner-freebsd-ipfw Mon Mar 4 22:13:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2B437B405 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:13:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay02.mac.com (server-source-si02 [10.13.10.6]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id g256DGrC020480 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from asmtp01.mac.com ([10.13.10.65]) by smtp-relay02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 relay02 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GSHLA400.II3 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:13:16 -0800 Received: from grinch ([12.234.224.67]) by asmtp01.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 asmtp01 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GSHLA300.K66 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:13:15 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:13:15 -0800 Subject: Re: Transparent proxy for connections originating on localhost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v475) From: "Justin C. Walker" To: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20020304213713.N87533@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-Id: <142957AC-3000-11D6-A30A-00306544D642@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.475) Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | It's not whether you win or lose... | It's whether *I* win or lose. *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message