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Date:      Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:59:50 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>, mi@aldan.algebra.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: transparent proxying through a separate machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102021348330.33204-100000@rapidnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A7ACA03.BA4D3F31@elischer.org>

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
> 
> > >         ipfw add allow ip from any to any out
> 
> the probele is the line above.
> 
> > >         ipfw add fwd localhost,3128 log tcp from any to any 3128 in
> 
> the above shoudl be 'out'.. FWD is not symetrical..
> you can only fwd locally on 'in' and fwd remotly on 'out'. It says this in the
> man page but it's a bit hard to read. I should fix it..

	After playing with fwd for a while, I re-read the ipfw man page
	and picked up that it only applies to packets leaving the
	system.  However, when I was testing this I had fwd setup on
	incoming packets and added the 'log' keyword so I could see what
	was going on.  It did report via syslog that packets were being
	forwarded to the address even though they weren't.  That was the
	confusing part.  A little rewording on the man page would help.

	Thanks for the clarification.

Nick Rogness
- Keep on routing in a Free World...  
  "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve "



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