Transparent proxy feature?

[Skylar Thompson]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:34:13PM +0100, Antal Rutz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nowadays I have to use a special firewall software ('zorp') but
> unfortunately it only runs on linux. the reason is that only linux
> has the feature (transparent proxying) to listen on/send packets (sourcing)
> from other IP addresses than the machine has. (maybe with an extra kmod)
> 
> The developers told me that they aren't familiar with FreeBSD but would
> port their software to it if the OS had support for that t-proxy.
> 
> The question is: Is there any plan to support that thing (maybe through
> ipfw, pf or ipfilter - no idea) or is that too sick?

ipnat has support for this. I've never used it on FreeBSD, but it works
fine on NetBSD. ipnat should be consistent across all the platforms it runs
on, so I'd assume it'll work on FreeBSD.

-- 
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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