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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:28:22 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Forcing packets to the wire
Message-ID:  <20020406212822.G70207@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204061322160.12246-100000@cody.jharris.com>; from nick@rogness.net on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:57:44PM -0600
References:  <20020405222555.C65380@over-yonder.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204061322160.12246-100000@cody.jharris.com>

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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:57:44PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:48:09PM -0600 I heard the voice of
> > Nick Rogness, and lo! it spake thus:
> > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 	- Is it possible without kernel modifications? How?
> > > 
> > > 	AFAIK, No.  Your only 2 possiblities that I could think of would
> > > 	be to use policy routing or natd.  Both will fail in this case.
> > 
> > You MIGHT be able to use ipfw divert/pipe rules to somehow shove the
> > packets into a program on their way out, and write a program that
> > would use raw sockets to hand-assemble the IP datagram on the way out;
> > I'm not sure if the kernel would try to outsmart you on that.
> 
> 	Yeh, I thought of that. The problem is packets never leave
> 	anywhere since the route for the other NIC is not "OUT" any
> 	interface...it is the machine itself.

Then never go over a _physical_ inteface, but they _do_ cross an
interface, lo0, the internal loopback.

  ipfw fwd <external gateway> ip from <ip_if0> to <ip_if1> in via lo0

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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
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