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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:52:49 -0500
From:      James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
To:        "Kisamore, Dan" <DKisamor@capecod.mass.edu>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Firewall Problem
Message-ID:  <3ABF65D1.7316D94@thehousleys.net>
References:  <89728F655659D211BF2B00104B314F8A013F2D9C@email.capecod.mass.edu>

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"Kisamore, Dan" wrote:
> 
> Help!
> 
>  Have setup a BSD Server running NATD. All is working well, except our
> internal mail server is not receiving email from the outside. Can't "ping"
> or "tracert" from outside the firewall to any IP inside the firewall. Mail
> is being sent out from our mail server and rcvd on the outside, but nothing
> is being received incoming. Ipfw rules are set to allow port 25 incoming
> mail. I think the translation process is causing the problem. Anyone out
> there seen this before, and better yet, have a fix or workaround for it? Let
> me know...
> 

If the mailserver is not of the firewall you will need to redirect
traffic to it.

man 8 natd 

And look at redirect port

Jim
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