Simple NAT

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:16:35 +0300, Maxim Filimonov wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2015 21:36:58 Polytropon wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:45:16 +0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> > > I have a freebsd machine (FreeBSD troika 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE
> > > #0 r274401) with openvpn that works like a charm :-)...
> > > I wish to nat one and only one of my openvpn clients, possibly for a
> > > single destination. What's the better way to avoid disturbing the rest
> > > of the operations?
> > > Any clues?
> > > Is IPFW my friend?
> > 
> > Yes, that should work. In /etc/rc.conf, set
> > 
> > 	natd_enable="YES"
> > 	natd_interface="xl0"
> > 
> 
> Why use natd, when ipfw can do kernel NAT?

You're right, that's probably easier. Because I didn't have
a configuration example at hand, I took one from an older
system still relying on natd. :-)



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