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Date:      Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:08:07 -0800
From:      Tim Fulmer <tfulmer@dslextreme.com>
To:        "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: natd and redirect_port
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020217180513.00a72df0@mail.dslextreme.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020217010330.I48401@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <000a01c1b5bf$b94b5ef0$f2dca8c0@athena> <000a01c1b5bf$b94b5ef0$f2dca8c0@athena>

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At 01:03 AM 2/17/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:25:59PM -0800, Tim Fulmer wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Having a bit of trouble with natd.
> >
> > Here's the setup :
> >
> > Internet
> > |
> > 66.Q.X.Y
> > 192.168.A.1---->192.168.A.2
> > 192.168.B.1
> >     +--->192.168.B.2
> >
> > I am browsing from 192.168.B.2.
> >
> > compiled a kernel with added options :
> >
> > options         CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU
> > options         NO_F00F_HACK
> > options         TCP_DROP_SYNFIN
> > options         IPFIREWALL
> > options         IPFIREWALL_FORWARD
> > options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE
> > options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100
> > options         IPDIVERT
> >
> >
> > relevant rc.conf :
> >
> > gateway_enable="YES"
> > ifconfig_rl0="inet 66.Q.X.Y  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> > ifconfig_rl0_alias0="inet 66.Q.X.Z netmask 255.255.255.255"
> > firewall_enable="YES"
> > firewall_type="OPEN"
> > natd_enable="YES"
> > natd_interface="rl0"
> > natd_flags="-f /etc/natd.conf"
> >
> >
> > and natd.conf :
> >
> > redirect_port tcp 192.168.A.2:80 80
> >
> >
> > and am still getting the local apache installation when I point a 
> browser at 66.Q.X.Y, though the connection sharing works fine from both 
> internal nets.  At some point in the future redirect_address may also be 
> a good idea, but right now that is non-functional as well.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>You are saying that the redirect does not work when you try to connect
>from the NAT'ed network? This is expected. When you send the SYN to
>66.Q.X.Y it goes to the gateway on the internal interface. It goes
>through your firewall rules and is either accepted or denied (you
>didn't show us the rules). If it is denied, story over. If it is
>accepted, the machine recognizes 66.Q.X.Y as its own address and
>processes the packet. And you are apparently running a webserver on
>this machine so it responds as expected.
>
>This is apparently not what you expect? natd(8) is only passed packets
>from ipfw(8) via the 'divert' rule when the packets are crossing the
>rl0 interface. In this situation, the packets never cross rl0, never
>go to natd(8), and translation will never occur.
>--
>Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>                                    |     cjclark@jhu.edu
>http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org


Yep, jumped across the street to the library and it worked just fine.

Thanks, I was going crazy on that one.
  - tim


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