IPFW + Portforwarding

[Sergey Matveychuk]

John Hay wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:47:12AM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
>> John Hay wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:19:22PM +0200, Leander S. wrote:
>>> You have to catch it where it is going out and not in. Fwd only works
>>> when packets are out bound.
>>>  
>> But how this works for me?
>>
>> ipfw  fwd 192.168.0.4,3128 log logamount 1000 tcp from 172.22.4.0/24 to 
>> 172.22.4.254 dst-port 3128 setup in via vr0 keep-state
> 
> I don't know. I did not think it will work. The way I understand it,
> is that fwd is a little like routing, it does not change the ip
> packet, so in effect it only change the mac address of the next hop
> and the interface, if needed.

No. Really it does not meter where a packet was caught. It's marked for 
forwarding if it's matched with a fwd rule.

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