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Date:      Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:47:51 +0000
From:      Matthew Ryan <matt@overdose.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Port Forwarding FreeBSD 4.7_Release
Message-ID:  <C03BA210-567F-11D7-8E90-0030654886A6@overdose.com>
In-Reply-To: <44isulpjvx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 12:13  am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>> Fact is, natd _only_ redirects from the interface is was told to bind 
>> to.
>> I'm not exactly sure why the packets don't route out and back in when 
>> you
>> try it from inside, but they don't ;( so you always need to test it 
>> from
>> the external interface.
>
> The reason they don't "route out" is that they are addressed to the
> router, so it doesn't bother to forward them outside.
>
Ok, I understand, this does present me with a bit of a problem however, 
accessing my mail server from home for example. Can you think of a 
workaround?

Ta

Matthew Ryan

Matt@overdose.com


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