Redirecting Traffic with PF

Eric Schultz eric at schultznet.ca
Fri Feb 24 13:00:07 PST 2006


Frank Staals wrote:
> Hey,
> 
Good afternoon...

I'm just stabbing in the dark here since I use neither 5-Stable nor PF.

> I have an FreeBSD server/firewall running 5-Stable with PF. I want to 
> redirect all udp traffic on port 27902 from the internet to a computer 
> in my network. I used this rule but I have some problem with it: 
> sometimes connections on that port are refused and I can't connect with 
> other players ( it's for a online game ) :
> 
What do you mean by "sometimes" ???  "sometimes" problems are the worst 
kind.

> rdr on $extif inet proto udp from any port 27902 -> 192.168.2.11 port 27902
> 
> I think the problem might have something to do with the different 
> network interfaces since the traffic is comming in on $extif and has to 
> go to an computer connected to $intif ? And how can I do that ? Can I 
> change it to:
> 
> rdr on $extif inet proto udp from any port 27902 -> $intif 192.168.2.11 
> port 27902
> 
How are your two interfaces configured and what does your routing table 
look like?  If you do a traceroute to 192.168.2.11 from the firewall 
when you're having trouble connecting what is the result?

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