From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 19 21:43:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8969637B405 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:43:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (hutch-342.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.42]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD7E62BA for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:43:51 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 723653863; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:41:52 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:41:52 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: David Loszewski Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: question bout firewall rules Message-ID: <20011219234152.F410@twincat.vladsempire.net> Mail-Followup-To: David Loszewski , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <3C21782A.2050201@mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C21782A.2050201@mediaone.net>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:33:30AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@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 20, 2001 at 12:33:30AM -0500, David Loszewski wrote: > is there a place I can go on firewall rules to find out what they mean > such as what something like this means: > > /sbin/ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via de0 > man ipfw http://www.freebsd.org/handbook For this rule, it's allowing nat to process all of the packets coming in so that it can do IP masquerading. Josh > > Dave > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message