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Date:      Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:21:11 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        David van Rensburg - PC Network <david@pcnetwork.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw and nat problem
Message-ID:  <502A18D1-745D-48E9-B395-BDB5A24BD2FA@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA4A532F.F6E0%david@pcnetwork.co.za>
References:  <CA4A532F.F6E0%david@pcnetwork.co.za>

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On Jul 18, 2011, at 12:17 PM, David van Rensburg - PC Network wrote:
> In can mean traffic going from the lan to the internet AND from the
> internet to the lan because either way it goes into the box as if flows
> through the box correct?

Yes, I think so.  Most people seem to prefer to use "recv via _external_interface_" rather than "in" to identify traffic from the Internet at large incoming towards their machine or local subnet.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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