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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:42:15 +1100 (EDT)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Cc:        chris@mail.bb.cc.wa.us, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IPFILTER
Message-ID:  <199701132143.NAA07881@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199701131951.NAA22684@plains.nodak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Jan 13, 97 01:51:27 pm

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In some mail from Mark Tinguely, sie said:
> 
> >  in the FBSD box i have two network cards.
> >  		fxp0 inet 208.8.136.10
> >  		fxp1 inet 10.16.14.1
> >  
> <deleted>
> >  when i ping 10.16.14.1 i get nothing.
> 
> ping (and traceroute) uses ICMP not IP. ICMP is not rewritten in NAT rules.
> get the Stevens book to see an example of UDP ping if you wish to use ping.

ICMP is now (but it doesn't rewrite the headers in error packets).

> Also, to get a successful remapping for IP application, be sure that you
> turned on the IP forwarding on the NAT host (ie:
>  
>  sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
>  
> ).

even better, for things like ftp which have address data in the TCP stream,
use a proxy.

Darren



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