Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:00:14 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Ivan Fetch <ivanfetch@technologist.com> Cc: dc <admin@cyrebels.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redirecting/mapping ports to a local machine... help! Message-ID: <20000219180014.B60348@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0002191113020.1015-100000@ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com>; from ivanfetch@technologist.com on Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:15:32AM -0700 References: <38AED9C2.13F933BF@cyrebels.org> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0002191113020.1015-100000@ibis.ivanfetch.tzo.com>
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:15:32AM -0700, Ivan Fetch wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, dc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i've got 2 computers, 1 on freebsd, the other on windows. They are > > sharing the net using natd. But i got a ftp server on port 42 of my > > windows box, and i want to make it available from the outside... i tried > > to do it with "redirect_port", here goes my natd.conf file: > > > > > > ### Configuration file for Natd > > > > alias_address 24.226.185.143 > > redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.2:42 42 > > redirect_port udp 192.168.0.2:42 42 > > > > ### End > > > > > > then i launched "natd -conf /etc/natd.conf", both computers were sharing > > the net as before, though i couldn't access the ftp server from the > > outside. > > > > I can connect to the ftp server from the bsd box using the local ip > > (19.168.0.2).... > > Hello, > Your Windows FTP server does work on port 42: > ftp your_Internet_IP 42 > > Connected to u-serv FTP... > > I am not sure if this is why things were not working when you tedted them, > but testing your ftp connection from inside your LAN (192.168.X.X) will > not work. Maybe telnet to another machine on the Internet and then try > FTPing back to your FreeBSD box for testing purposes. Doing FTP over a NAT box is problematic due to the two-channel nature of FTP. As far as I know, NAT cannot fully support the FTP protocol. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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