From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 15:52:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932C437BB32 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e71Moqd43275; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:50:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008012250.e71Moqd43275@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Mark Lapointe Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp and nat In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 16:50:52 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Mark Lapointe wrote: +------------------ | Right now I am using FreeBSD 4.0 as a gateway, and I need to get ident | requests to be answered by the boxen behind the gateway. | | And I don't want to redirect the port to one specific box (like I saw in | some of the other email msgs) | | later, +------------------ Hum... Ident requests coming from the outside will arrive with the destination address of the natbox. If I remember right there is nothing in the protocol that allows the request to be mapped to a host inside the nat. That means that some special footwork would have to be done to allow the identd process to probe the natd lookup table and map the port in the ident request to an inside port and address. Then forward the request, maybe with a spoofed source address. Seems like a tall order for something with so marginal a use. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message