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Date:      Sat, 14 Nov 1998 22:51:43 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        chuck@ucsd.edu
Cc:        jm7996@devrycols.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Firewall + IPNAT
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811142250540.333-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.4.02A.9811141834390.26966-100000@sdcc10.ucsd.edu>

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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Chuck Rouillard wrote:

> 
> 
> [chop]
> > For performance reasons, I wiped OpenBSD and installed FreeBSD 3.0.  Now,
> > I'm looking for the tools to run the translation and firewalling again.
> > I've managed to find /sbin/ipf and /sbin/ipnat, however, I can't find the
> > necessarry kernel options in the LINT kernel.
> > 
> > I'd like to stick with ipf & ipnat because I'm familiar with their
> > operation.  Can someone help me out here?
> 
> 
> options         IPFIREWALL              #enables the IP firewall
> options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE      #enables logging to /var/log
> 
> options         IPDIVERT                #enable NAT operations
> 
> The IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE option isn't mandatory, but nice.  If you use
> it, look in the LINT file for further comments on related options.
> 
> For versions such as 2.2.5(and 2.2.6?), don't forget to add
> 
> natd            6668/divert     #NAT socket
> 
> to /etc/services.

Just a very very quick addition here, that just hit me...don't forget to
enable 'gateway_enable' in /etc/rc.conf :(  I've been cursing over this
for a few weeks now, not so important that I've bothered to ask, but just
clued into it tonight *sigh*

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 


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