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Date:      Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:36:40 +0800 (WST)
From:      Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw question
Message-ID:  <20020106113530.R85470-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020105184641.G204@gohan.cjclark.org>

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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> > I need to divert any outgoing packet on port 100 to any host over to the
> > same port on machine B.
>
>   # ipfw add fwd 2.2.2.2 from 1.1.1.1 to any 100 out
>
> Should do it, provided,
>
>   1) 2.2.2.2 is local to 1.1.1.1

On the same LAN in other words?

>   2) This is _really_ what you want to do. You do realize that the
>   fwd'ed packet is NOT modified. Machine B will receive a datagram
>   without the destination address changed in any way (if 1.1.1.1 was
>   sending a datagram to 3.3.3.3, port 100, Machine B will receive a
>   datagram with a destination address of 3.3.3.3, port 100).

That's fine - I need the destination address to receive the correct origin
address.

> As I think I said before, you probably actually want to do NAT of some
> sort.

NAT changes the origin.

Regards,

d


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