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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 2014 07:20:43 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@buildingonline.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Future of pf / firewall in FreeBSD ? - does it have one ?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408010716450.26876@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <53DB9017.3000304@buildingonline.com>
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Dan Busarow wrote:

>
> On 8/1/14, 1:39 AM, krad wrote:
>> I always found natting in ipfw rather awkward and harder than in pf.
>> Looking at the man page it doesnt seem to have changed. I should probably
>> give it another go though as it has been about 10 years now
>
> Couldn't be much easier than the way it works now
>
> e.g.
>
> firewall_enable="YES"
> firewall_type="OPEN"
> natd_enable="YES"
> natd_interface="em0"
> natd_flags="-s -m -u"
>
> All of the builtin rulesets know about NAT
>
> My home network has two internal nets each with it's own wifi AP and the 
> above handles it.
>
> natd_interface is your outside facing interface.

In pf, it is just an entry in the rules:

   nat on $ext_if from $internal_net to any -> ($ext_if)



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