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Date:      Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:51:54 +0100
From:      Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
To:        Rodrique Heron <swygue@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Forwarding another host
Message-ID:  <1199919114.59461.10.camel@xenon>
In-Reply-To: <4784F7E3.3060508@rodhouse.org>
References:  <4784F7E3.3060508@rodhouse.org>

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On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:35 -0500, Rodrique Heron wrote:
> Good Day-
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 and I want to know if forwarding to a external 
> host is supported by PF. I want to forward all incoming traffic to port 
> 22 to another host, but it does not work, forwarding to a Jail works 
> though. Here are my configs:

> rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $host_ip port 22 -> $external_host 
> port 22

This surely works, I've been using it for years (I think everyone
does). 

Maybe your $external_host is blocking incoming traffic, or doesn't have
a clean route to reply?

m.

-- 
Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
Stonehenge




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