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Date:      Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:02:12 -0800
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   DIOCNATLOOK fails with ipfw
Message-ID:  <529C3E84.1030203@rawbw.com>

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I have an app with transparent proxy that should intercept all TCP 
connections in the interface.
This is done with ipfw(8) rule like this:
ipfw add 200 fwd 192.168.10.1,15020 tcp from 192.168.10.0/24 to any 80 
keep-state
Transparent proxy is on 192.168.10.1:15020

Proxy accepts the connections, however, it is using /dev/pf to get the 
original destination and the lookup procedure fails:
ioctl(DIOCNATLOOK) failed: No such file or directory
It fails because nobody ever calls pf_state_insert. I see from the 
source that ioctl to add the pf_state is DIOCSTART, which is issued by 
pfctl(8), but I am not using pfctl(8) at all.

My questions are:
What is the relationship between ipfw(8) and pfctl(8)? Do they do the 
same? Why two of them?
If I only use ipfw, is there a way for the acceptor to find what the 
original destination was without /dev/pf?

Yuri



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