Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:13:43 +0200 From: Aslak Evang <nyogtha@flipp.net> To: lucas@slb.to Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: identd+nat and usbmouse Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010820190722.00a65a40@freenix.no> In-Reply-To: <20010820093400.A67659@comp04.prc.uic.edu> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010820024326.00a56400@freenix.no> <5.1.0.14.2.20010820024326.00a56400@freenix.no>
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>Please don't ask >1 unrelated questions in a single post. See
Sorry. Didn't know.
>``auth'' behind NAT is always dodgy, since the protocol depends on the
>client port number. (The source port used by the NAT box is very
>unlikely to be the same as the source port on the actual client
>machine.) I think I see what's coming.
>Unless you typed a valid auth request (something of the form
>"1234,5678"), then this is correct behavior. Your daemon appears to
>be working.
>Do you have shell access to a machine outside your network? You could
>always use your same telnet command from above to test if your port
>forwarding is working. If you get "Connection refused," then your
>port forward is broken.
>Once your port forward is working, you'll probably need the `-d'
>option to the auth service to work around the NAT source port problem
>I mumbled about above. See inetd(8).
Thanks for your advice. I figured out some more stuff today with help from
a friend who runs fbsd. The router appears to be forwarding the request
from the irc-server to the right port of my machine, but then sends the
reply on a completely different port that the irc-server cant handle/doesnt
understand. My friend recommended that I check the web to see if anyone
else who uses the same router as me has problems with this. I couldn't find
any and actually making a lot of sense from netstat and ethereal is a
little bit out of my league for now (i'm working on it) so this is
completely based on his advice. I can telnet to the identd deamon both from
outside and inside. My friend also ran a couple of low-level ident commands
on the port and got correct replies.
I wasnt able to find anyone with the same problem on the web. I own a
D-Link DI-704 if anyone cares :)
cheers!
- Aslak
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