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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.org>
To:        Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Natd/ipfw/redirect issue
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110011217320.580-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109282211190.76693-100000@cody.jharris.com>

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Nick Rogness wrote:

> > ipfw rule would allow both internal machines to reach the mail server
> > properly, *and* allow external machines to reach it.  With just the
> > ipfw rule in place, no machines could reach it at all.  Using natd,
> > external machines could reach it, but not internal ones.
>
> 	NO! You want to use the redirect_port option to natd NOT IPFW
> 	FWD!!!  man natd

Hey, no need to shout at me... :)  I tried both ways, and obviously using
just ipfw didn't work at all, so natd is what I'm using.  However, it's a
solution to the *internal* problem that I'm looking for, be it using ipfw
or something else.

Thanks for the input!

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