Forwarding another host

David DeSimone fox at verio.net
Fri Jan 11 23:23:11 PST 2008


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Rodrique Heron <swygue at rodhouse.org> wrote:
>
> Yep! I understand perfectly, now is there anything I can do on the pix side
> to allow the traffic back to HOST-A ?

This seems the wrong question to ask.

Shouldn't you instead be wondering, how can you get the PIX to forward
connections to HOST-B instead of to HOST-A?  The PIX is a full firewall
with NAT features, so it can perform the NAT instead of your BSD box,
and since it is the default gateway for return traffic, will have no
trouble applying the translation in both directions.

I realize this is a FreeBSD mailng list, but you should go for the
simplest solution, because complex solutions tend to fail in complex
ways.

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