From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 18:08:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B45516A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:08:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB8243D64 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:08:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j23I7xGD030946; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:07:59 GMT Message-ID: <422753BD.1020508@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:13:17 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <6.2.0.14.2.20050303061448.00a34520@localhost> <9e46c99e05030307153a916d11@mail.gmail.com> <20050303171413.GB38641@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050303171413.GB38641@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Tomas Quintero cc: "J.D. Bronson" Subject: Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:08:12 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-03-03 10:15, Tomas Quintero wrote: > >>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: >> >>>No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this >>>list to help me? >>> >>>I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (3 NICs). >>>And I see there are some options: >>> >>>net.inet.ip.fastforwarding >>>or >>>net.inet.ip.forwarding >>> >>>Can someone tell me which is appropriate when FreeBSD 5.4-PRE is >>>used as a router running pf with built in NAT ? >> >>Are you entirely sure you want to do it using PF? Has PF even been >>fully implemented into the 5.x series? > > > Yes. The 5.3-RELEASE version was the first official release of FreeBSD > that included PF as part of the base system. > > As far as the original question, regarding PF and forwarding, the answer > is AFAIK, that it should work. I haven't used PF's network address > translation until now, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. > > Packet forwarding is, unless I'm mistaken, a prerequisite for any > gateway. The fact that the gateway also translates addresses is not > obligatory but just a characteristics of the local network topology > (i.e. availability of public addresses). > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hmm I found this: http://mailman.twdx.net/pipermail/occaid/2003-October/000250.html Google for "freebsd net.inet.ip.fastforwarding". Chris