Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek Sailor <dereksailor@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to connect to servers outside of intranet Message-ID: <20020813224013.94996.qmail@web20511.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020812102104.GD7021@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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--- Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:02:11PM -0700, Derek > Sailor wrote: > > > I have two server services running, sshd and ftpd. > > > >From my internal network (192.168.0.x) on > interface > > de0 I'm able to connect fine. However, from the > > internet (on my AT&T broadband cable modem) on > > interface de1 I'm unable to connect at all. > > This smells like one of two things to me --- mostly > because you've > eliminated pretty much all the other options in your > quite excellent > report. > > Second option is the NAT configuration on your > machine. > > The problem comes when the connection is initiated > from the outside > --- what address should natd forward the packets to? > There are > several '-redirect' options given in the natd(8) man > page in order to > solve this problem. In your case, I think all you > need to do is > redirect tcp traffic on ports 20 (ftp-data), 21 > (ftp) and 22 (ssh) to > the internal interface of your machine, by adding > > --redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.1:20-22 20-22 > > to the natd flags (assuming 192.168.0.1 is the > address of your de0 > interface). > > Cheers, > > Matthew Duh! I never thought about the natd getting confused and dropping the unrequested packets! This indeed fixed the problem completely. Thanks so much for your help Matthew!!!! Derek __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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