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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2006 16:24:35 -0700
From:      "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com>
To:        "PFS IT" <pfsbsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPFW - Two External Interfaces
Message-ID:  <df9ac37c0605161624h4da86ac1r585d7db55ed71613@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <996142470605161456n46e43682x392b1f4f2ccfec73@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <996142470605161456n46e43682x392b1f4f2ccfec73@mail.gmail.com>

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On 5/16/06, PFS IT <pfsbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am attempting to use IPFW (and either IPNAT or natd) to do the followin=
g:
>
> I have two connections to the outside world coming in to my firewall.
> em0 has a static ip and is going to a bridged DSL connection, then
> bge1 has a static ip and is going to a a few bonded DS1s. bge0 goes to
> my internal network. I am attempting to have NAT on both external
> interfaces, and have most outbound traffic move across bge1, while
> traffic from/to a particular internal system (We'll call it
> internal_system for purposes of this message) to/from a particular
> remote  system (This we'll call remote_system) port 80 moves across
> the DSL line on em0.
>

It was a situation similar to this that made me switch to pf. The NAT
features available to IPFW (at least in the past) are/were pretty
limited. If you are not committed to IPFW I would strongly recommend
pf.

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