ipfw forwarding

[Peter Jeremy]

On Tue, 2005-Dec-13 18:27:43 +0100, OxY wrote:
>i used this rule:
>
>$cmd 00316 fwd x.x.x.x.204,80 tcp from any to x.x.x.28 80
>
>what's wrong with it?

You don't mention what is happening or not happening (running tcpdump
and following packets as they go from system to system can be useful)
but there are two issues you may not have considered.
1) Have you considered what will happen to packets being returned from
   the server on .28 to the client?
2) ipfw(8) states:
      The fwd action does not change the contents of the packet at all.
      In particular, the destination address remains unmodified, so
      packets forwarded to another system will usually be rejected by
      that system unless there is a matching rule on that system to
      capture them.  For packets forwarded locally, the local address

-- 
Peter Jeremy