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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:37:42 +0100
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        John Aughey <jha@washucsc.org>
Cc:        Christoph Sold <so@server.ms-agentur.de>, FreeBSD-ipfw@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.org
Message-ID:  <3A79E536.BCF96341@i-clue.de>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102011549260.490-100000@washucsc.org>

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John Aughey schrieb:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Christoph Sold wrote:
> > Q: How to redirect from interface ed0, port 80, to the very same
> > machine, untrusted port, e.g. 1234?
> 
> Checkout /usr/ports/net/bounce.  It will accept connections on one port
> and forward it on to another.
> 
> This is also an interesting way to enable IPv6 connectivity for
> applications that are not IPv6 aware.  You can write an application that
> will listen on the IPv6 interface and forward the data on to your IPv4
> application.  Reverse name lookups will always point back to your loopback
> device, but it does work.  I've written an application like that that runs
> from inetd.

Thanks, John. Unfortunately, I need to know who connects to our
untrusted application. I use rinetd at this time, which also drops the
connection information -- all connects point back to localhost.

-Christoph Sold


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