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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:40:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com>
To:        Barry Irwin <bvi@itouchlabs.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does natd(8) really need to see _all_ packets?
Message-ID:  <200302040540.h145evwa062764@corbulon.video-collage.com>
In-Reply-To: <002801c2cc0e$dba94ff0$83ee35ca@Beastie>

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> your best solution is to add a skipto before the divert rule.

Thank you, Barry, but is not that what I'm doing in the sample?
 
> You can therefore skip any traffic from a private address to another
> private address. Anything not matched by the skipto rule gets fed to
> the divert socket.

The trick was to figure out, what could be skipped, and what could not.
I'm wondering, if I got that right -- it seems to work find, but does it
leave something open? Before I can recommend it to others, I'd like to
be more sure :-)

	-mi
 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
> To: <net@FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 7:27 AM
> Subject: Does natd(8) really need to see _all_ packets?
> 
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > This question bothered me for a while -- most of the traffic on my
> > LAN is just that -- local. Yet my gw/firewall machine only has one
> > interface -- with two IP addresses -- private and public on it.
> >
> > The DSL modem is plugged into the switch just like everything else.
> >
> > I doubt this is a unique setup.

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