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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:08:29 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/20197: rc.firewall with firewall_type=simple doesn't work with natd
Message-ID:  <20000801100829.A11304@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000801102004.A753@sunbay.com>; from ru@sunbay.com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:20:04AM %2B0300
References:  <200007262240.PAA88875@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000731190439.A75240@sunbay.com> <20000731194233.A4370@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000801102004.A753@sunbay.com>

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On Tue 2000-08-01 (10:20), Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I had something reasonably similar that I was going to suggest for
> > people who use custom rulesets and want natd_enable, but not for a
> > divert line to be added automatically (I use it on my little NAT
> > router).  This means one less "customization" of rc scripts for me at
> > least (:
> > 
> I am affraid I do not understand what do you mean here.
> Could you please explain it to me a bit more?
> 
> The nat() function installs `divert' rule where appropriate only
> when both `natd_enable' and `natd_interface' are set in rc.conf.

Only if it is called - if you're using a custom firewall set, you don't
call it.  You may want your divert rule later in your firewall rules,
for whatever reason - it may only apply on certain IPs, ports, or
whatever.  I've had to comment it out to prevent it from doing something
I don't want.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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