[repost] ip.forwarding with pf

[Chris Hodgins]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-03-03 10:15, Tomas Quintero <tomasq at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson <jbronson at wixb.com> wrote:
>>
>>>No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this
>>>list to help me?
>>>
>>>I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (3 NICs).
>>>And I see there are some options:
>>>
>>>net.inet.ip.fastforwarding
>>>or
>>>net.inet.ip.forwarding
>>>
>>>Can someone tell me which is appropriate when FreeBSD 5.4-PRE is
>>>used as a router running pf with built in NAT ?
>>
>>Are you entirely sure you want to do it using PF? Has PF even been
>>fully implemented into the 5.x series?
> 
> 
> Yes.  The 5.3-RELEASE version was the first official release of FreeBSD
> that included PF as part of the base system.
> 
> As far as the original question, regarding PF and forwarding, the answer
> is AFAIK, that it should work.  I haven't used PF's network address
> translation until now, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
> 
> Packet forwarding is, unless I'm mistaken, a prerequisite for any
> gateway.  The fact that the gateway also translates addresses is not
> obligatory but just a characteristics of the local network topology
> (i.e. availability of public addresses).
> 
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Hmm I found this:
http://mailman.twdx.net/pipermail/occaid/2003-October/000250.html

Google for "freebsd net.inet.ip.fastforwarding".

Chris