From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 11:36:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6766106564A for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:36:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6F38FC19 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.186]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A328D5C44 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:43:58 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4D527BAC.3080805@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:34:04 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110204 Thunderbird/3.0.11 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D515148.3000009@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110208151849.GC3267@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <4D51CD05.8040003@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110209111646.GD3267@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20110209111646.GD3267@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: pf, binat, rdr, and one ip X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:36:51 -0000 On 02/09/11 21:16, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:08:53AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> On 02/09/11 01:18, Daniel Bye wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:20:56AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: >>> >>> >>>> A very quick question. >>>> >>>> PF firewall. One static public IP. About 6 servers on the internal >>>> network (dmz). One server binat in the pf.conf, the rest redirected. >>>> >>>> Possible? Or would it die in the hole? >>>> >>>> >>> I guess you're concerned about performance and resource usage? If so, this >>> may be helpful. >>> >>> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> >> Useful info to have, thanks. But no, I'm interested in if the binatting >> will interfere with the rdr's (or vice versa). >> > Ah, I see. I don't know, is the straight answer - I've never needed to use > both together. A bit of idle googling seems to suggest it's possible, but > I don't have time right now to dig any deeper. > Thats exactly what I got too. Nothing definitive to go on. Apparently not a very common arrangement. It *seems* to be working, but there are some weird quirks I can't quite account for. Hence the question to the guys who'd know... :)