Can loader.conf give you NATD support?

John john at starfire.mn.org
Mon Feb 8 16:24:40 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:39:14AM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, John wrote:
> 
> > The natd man page says it is still necessary to create a customer
> > kernl with
> >
> > options IPFIREWALL
> > options IPDIVERT
> >
> > Is that still true, or can it be accomplished vi a loader.conf?
> 
> It's a kernel option, so you probably can't do it at runtime.
> 
> Consider using pf instead of ipfw.  pf does NAT without needing natd or 
> those kernel options.

Oh.  OK!  That must be new since the last time I did this.  Will it be
difficult to port my ipfw and natd rules to pf?

> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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