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Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:48:04 -0500
From:      Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gateway machine port redirect question
Message-ID:  <56CA5AC4.8070502@rcn.com>
In-Reply-To: <43887.128.135.52.6.1456021321.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
References:  <43887.128.135.52.6.1456021321.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>

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On 2/20/2016 9:22 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> I'm one of Linux refugees who several years ago migrated majority of
> servers from Linux to FreeBSD and is happy since. When recently I needed
> to set up gateway (Firewall + NAT) machine, I set up FreeBSD 10.2 on it,
> used ipwf and natd, and all works well, machines behind gateway on LAN can
> happily reach real network. I hit one snag later though: When I tried to
> redirect TCP traffic on some port to machine on internal private network
> behind gateway, whatever I do doesn't work.
>
> Could somebody point to simple example (it doesn't matter which components
> are involved, I don't feel married to ipfw and natd) for FreeBSD 10.2 that
> makes the machine gateway, and one of the ports of traffic coming from
> public network is redirected to machine on private network behind gateway.
> Something I can reproduce that works, which I then will gradually convert
> into what I need. Other way around: adding redirection to already working
> (and a bit sophisticated) gateway I set up appears to be beyond my mental
> abilities: a couple of weeks of frustration confirm it to me.
>
> I really do not want to go back to Linux to do this, even though I feel I
> can do it based on Linux in a course of an hour or two - I've set up a few
> of them in the past using Linux, that's the longest it took me in my
> recollection.
>
> Thanks in advance for all your answers and pointers!
>
> Valeri
>
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> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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> University of Chicago
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Something like this?  It redirects external port 1234 to a machine on the internal
network at port 80.  In your natd.conf, put something like this:
redirect_port tcp 10.12.34.56:80 1234

Gary




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