From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 12:18:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (cx1245853-a.cv1.sdca.home.com [24.38.4.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BFF37B403 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from data (helo=localhost) by ds9.dreamhaven.org with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15o8a9-000OF4-00; Mon, 01 Oct 2001 12:18:25 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:18:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: Nick Rogness Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Natd/ipfw/redirect issue In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Nick Rogness wrote: > > ipfw rule would allow both internal machines to reach the mail server > > properly, *and* allow external machines to reach it. With just the > > ipfw rule in place, no machines could reach it at all. Using natd, > > external machines could reach it, but not internal ones. > > NO! You want to use the redirect_port option to natd NOT IPFW > FWD!!! man natd Hey, no need to shout at me... :) I tried both ways, and obviously using just ipfw didn't work at all, so natd is what I'm using. However, it's a solution to the *internal* problem that I'm looking for, be it using ipfw or something else. Thanks for the input! ********************************************************* * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.org * * www.dreamhaven.org/~data * * "Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes." * ********************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message