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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:18:48 -0600 (CST)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
To:        Stephen Ware <steve@inserted.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw and forwarding questions.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102131002270.89071-100000@cody.jharris.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010213212256.02230ea8@entropy.inserted.net>

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Stephen Ware wrote:

> Hola,

	Hello! comments below...

> I'm trying to play an online  game (Age of Empires 2) from my
> windows machine (192.168.0.2), The windows machine
> is behind a 4.2-Stable (cvsupped as of last week). My
> external interface is ppp0 (61.12.142.3) and my internal
> interface is rl0 (192.168.0.1)
> Age of Empires seems to require a connection from the
> server to play multiplayer styles, however the port isn't
> consistent.
> I''ve recompiled my kernel with options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
> and added after reading the ipfw man page, tried this:
> 
> ipfw fwd 192.168.0.2 log all from 206.47.132.194 to any in recv ppp0
> 

	ipfw fwd ONLY works on outbound packets.  Check the mail-list
	archives as I ran into this problem a while back.  ALso, in this
	case you probably want to use NAT instead of fwd.

Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
- Keep on routing in a Free World...  
  "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!"




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