nat and firewall

[fire jotawski]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:

> FBSD1 wrote:
>
>>
>> natd_enable="YES"  This statement in rc.conf enables ipfw nated function.
>> firewall_nat_enable="YES"  This is an invalid statement. No such thing as
>> you have here.
>>
>
> This is no longer true; he did indeed find "firewall_nat_enable"
> in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.  The knob seems to have first appeared
> in February in HEAD and I'm guessing it cues the system to use a
> new kernel-based nat rather than natd(8), but I've not read anything
> further about this, as my system isn't as up to date as the OP's.
> I don't know when this change was MFC'ed, but apparently fairly
> recently?
>
> I suppose we need someone a tad more "in the know" to straighten
> that out for us.
>

up to this moment, i do not know if natd and firewall_nat function in the
same or different.
and is there firewall_nat_flags thing too ?

thanks in advanced for any helps and hints.
regards,
psr


>
> Kevin Kinsey
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> than a fool can from the bottom of a well.
>