pf: redirect a packet's port but not its address?

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Tue Jan 23 14:16:36 UTC 2018


On 23.01.2018 03:35, Alan Somers wrote:
> All of these problems could be solved if pf were able to redirect a
> packet's destination port but not its address.  You could bind the daemon
> to INADDR_ANY instead of localhost, and the packet it receives would be
> destined to the same address that the sender intended.
> 
> Unfortunately, pf currently lacks this capability.  But it looks like it
> could be added without breaking existing pf.conf syntax.  Would this be a
> good idea?
> 
> I don't use ipfw, but from reading the man page I believe that it has the
> same problem.

I think ipfw should work with such configuration using "fwd" action,
since TCP/UDP has special handling for this.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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