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Date:      Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:37:55 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Karim Fodil-Lemelin <kfl@xiphos.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ipfw fwd to localhost
Message-ID:  <4267E4F3.45CD30AF@freebsd.org>
References:  <4267E0FA.9060004@xiphos.ca>

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Karim Fodil-Lemelin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>     I just did a cvsup of RELENG_5 and got some problem doing forwarding
> to localhost using a rule like this:
> 
> ipfw add fwd 127.0.0.1,1234 tcp from any to any in via re1
> 
>     I have those options in my kernel config:
> 
> options   IPFIREWALL
> options   IPFIREWALL_FORWARD_EXTENDED
> options   IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
> 
>     I understand that 5.4 is using ipfw2 by default so I did not add
> IPFW2="YES" in /etc/make.conf and used the ipfw that I had installed
> with 5.3.
> 
> The error I get is somehting like setsockopt (IP_FW_ADD) invalid
> argument when issuing the ipfw call.

You need this option too:

 options   IPFIREWALL_FORWARD

-- 
Andre



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