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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:38:55 -0500
From:      "Charles Pelletier" <fozekizer@attbi.com>
To:        "Nick Rogness" <nick@rogness.net>, "Alan McKay" <amckay@neap.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: help with webcam through natd + ipfw
Message-ID:  <002a01c27bc7$48361f10$32040101@hume>
References:  <20021024191336.F36020-100000@skywalker.rogness.net>

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question...
having never dealt with IPFW and nat, does ipnat.conf need to exist? i
wonder this because it seems like a great majority of problems that exist
with IPF can be solved by having a correct ipnat.conf.
Charles Pelletier
Tech. Coordinator
St Luke's School

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Rogness" <nick@rogness.net>
To: "Alan McKay" <amckay@neap.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: help with webcam through natd + ipfw


> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Alan McKay wrote:
>
> >
> > > What does `ipfw -a l` show?
> >
> > That seems to be the same as "ipfw show", which I used to determine that
> > there do not seem to be any 'deny' rules hit. So I cannot really tell
> > where those packets are going.  I can hit my port 80 from work no
> > problem (www.bodensatz.com), but 8080 no deal.  So it seems to be going
> > through some allow rule, but I'm not sure which.
>
>
> If indeed your internal machine is excepting connections on port
> 8080 (can be tested from the firewall box using telnet) then this
> sounds like a firewalling problem.  Set your firewall type to
> OPEN, reboot and see if it works.  If it does, then you need to
> examine your firewall rules better.
>
> There is really nothing special about what your doing if the
> firewall is correct.
>
> Also, to help troubleshoot more, I would recommend using ipfw log
> statements as well as the natd log option.
>
> Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
> -
>  "Wouldn't it be great if we could answer people with a
>   kick to the crotch?"  -maddox@xmission.com
>
>
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