Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:54:26 -0500 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@ardent-hacker.net> To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp and nat Message-ID: <00080117550200.09635@armageddon.ardent-hacker.net> In-Reply-To: <200008012250.e71Moqd43275@fedde.littleton.co.us> References: <200008012250.e71Moqd43275@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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May I ask what sort of application this is going to have? It will be easier to offer a solution. On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Mark Lapointe wrote: > +------------------ > | Right now I am using FreeBSD 4.0 as a gateway, and I need to get ident > | requests to be answered by the boxen behind the gateway. > | > | And I don't want to redirect the port to one specific box (like I saw in > | some of the other email msgs) > | > | later, > +------------------ > > Hum... Ident requests coming from the outside will arrive with the > destination address of the natbox. If I remember right there is > nothing in the protocol that allows the request to be mapped to a > host inside the nat. That means that some special footwork would > have to be done to allow the identd process to probe the natd lookup > table and map the port in the ident request to an inside port and > address. Then forward the request, maybe with a spoofed source > address. Seems like a tall order for something with so marginal > a use. > > chris > > -- > Chris Fedde > 303 773 9134 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Eric F Crist System Administrator Ardent-Hacker.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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