Forwarding another host

Michal Varga varga.michal at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 15:18:46 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:35 -0500, Rodrique Heron wrote:
> Good Day-
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 and I want to know if forwarding to a external 
> host is supported by PF. I want to forward all incoming traffic to port 
> 22 to another host, but it does not work, forwarding to a Jail works 
> though. Here are my configs:

> rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $host_ip port 22 -> $external_host 
> port 22

This surely works, I've been using it for years (I think everyone
does). 

Maybe your $external_host is blocking incoming traffic, or doesn't have
a clean route to reply?

m.

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Michal Varga <varga.michal at gmail.com>
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