Re: RELENG_5 ipfw problem

From: Sean McNeil <sean_at_mcneil.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:18:43 -0700
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 03:28, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 07:29:15PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > How are you compiling ipfw2?  I have it built into my kernel and have no
> > issues at all.  Are you using it as a loadable module or part of the
> > kernel?
> 
> Meanwhile (as I wrote in the thread) I have IPFW compiled in by using 
> options IPFIREWALL and options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD - which is now 
> mandatory to have forwarding support.

Sorry, this must have been clipped out of the messages I saw.

> When you say "no issues at all", do you also use forwarding to change 
> the next hop of IP packets? This seems to be the only problem and is a 
> very special setup.

I am not changing the next hop myself.  I'm using NAT on the forwarding
side.  Guess this is changing the packets differently than your special
case.

Sean
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 16:18:47 UTC

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