From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 30 10:32:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6245315736 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA03154; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:33:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:33:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Steve Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Semi off topic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Steve Hovey wrote: > > Are there any provisions or programs for freebsd which will allow for port > redirection? > > As in you have box A and box B with a firewall inbetween, and say box C on > the same side as B.. You want to get to C port 80, but the firewall > blocks port 80.. the firewall doesnt block port 82.. Is there any > application/solution for box A to use box B to redirect the ports > connection to C > > (boy I bet that doesnt make alot of sense) check the ipfw man page, look for: fwd ipaddr [,port] Change the next-hop on matching packets to ipaddr, which can be an IP address in dotted quad or a host name. If ipaddr is not a directly-reachable ad- dress, the route as found in the local routing table for that IP is used instead. If ipaddr is a ... This may help. enjoy, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message