IPF Firewall Rules... help!

bob at a1poweruser.com bob at a1poweruser.com
Sat Apr 9 08:43:30 PDT 2005


Dick
Since you say you have lime ware working on your LAN behind firewall
why don't you post your rules so we can see how you did it.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dick
Hoogendijk
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 5:26 PM
To: freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: IPF Firewall Rules... help!

On 08 Apr bob at a1poweruser.com wrote:
> If you read the limewire website carefully you will see that no
where
> does it say it will work on PC on a local area network (LAN).
This is
> one of those products that buries the sending IP address in the
> packets. A PC on the LAN uses an NATed ip address and this product
can
> not handle that.  This is a common problem with products such as
this.

Are you saying here that limewire does /not/ run on clients on a
NATted
local area network?

If so, how come then that limewire runs on my windows client, as
well as
on my OS-X and FreeBSD clients? All NATted of course.

> It's just not designed to work on PC that is on a LAN.

It works like a charme for me though.

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