From owner-freebsd-net Thu Dec 27 23:19:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2443737B416 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.247.139.181.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.139.181] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JrIf-0002me-00; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:19:30 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBS7JMF08775; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 23:19:22 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Henry Su Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is my ipfw(8) ``fwd'' rule to redirect a service to another machine not working? Message-ID: <20011227231922.N2090@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from henrysu@nttmcl.com on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:42:16PM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:42:16PM -0800, Henry Su wrote: > > http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.20.shtml > > Is there a way to configure your machine not drop these packets? I wrote that FAQ entry for people directing packets to another machine. When you are forwarding the packets to 127.0.0.1, the local machine, it is not an issue. The packets will be "accepted" by the system. (But that doesn't mean the application will behave well.) -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message