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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:35:15 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
To:        Charles Pelletier <fozekizer@attbi.com>
Cc:        Alan McKay <amckay@neap.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: help with webcam through natd + ipfw
Message-ID:  <20021024213350.Y36907-100000@skywalker.rogness.net>
In-Reply-To: <002a01c27bc7$48361f10$32040101@hume>

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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Charles Pelletier wrote:

> question...

> having never dealt with IPFW and nat, does ipnat.conf need to exist? i
> wonder this because it seems like a great majority of problems that
> exist with IPF can be solved by having a correct ipnat.conf.

	No, ipnat.conf doesn't need to exist when using IPFW/NAT.  That is
	for the ipnat/ipfilter system which is a whole different monster.


> Charles Pelletier
> Tech. Coordinator
> St Luke's School
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Rogness" <nick@rogness.net>
> To: "Alan McKay" <amckay@neap.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:16 PM
> Subject: Re: help with webcam through natd + ipfw
>
>
> > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Alan McKay wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > What does `ipfw -a l` show?
> > >
> > > That seems to be the same as "ipfw show", which I used to determine that
> > > there do not seem to be any 'deny' rules hit. So I cannot really tell
> > > where those packets are going.  I can hit my port 80 from work no
> > > problem (www.bodensatz.com), but 8080 no deal.  So it seems to be going
> > > through some allow rule, but I'm not sure which.
> >
> >
> > If indeed your internal machine is excepting connections on port
> > 8080 (can be tested from the firewall box using telnet) then this
> > sounds like a firewalling problem.  Set your firewall type to
> > OPEN, reboot and see if it works.  If it does, then you need to
> > examine your firewall rules better.
> >
> > There is really nothing special about what your doing if the
> > firewall is correct.
> >
> > Also, to help troubleshoot more, I would recommend using ipfw log
> > statements as well as the natd log option.
> >
> > Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
> > -
> >  "Wouldn't it be great if we could answer people with a
> >   kick to the crotch?"  -maddox@xmission.com
> >
> >
> >
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>

Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
-
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  kick to the crotch?"  -maddox@xmission.com



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