Subject: Re: IRC client behind NAT question...
To: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/30/2000 21:10:29
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:54:20PM -0700, Space Case wrote:
> When I was running older versions of the OS (up to early 1.5ALPHA), this
> setup worked; under the latest 1.5ALPHA (Aug 29 sup), it doesn't.  I have
> several systems behind an i386 box which is connected to a cable modem.
> Running IRC on the i386 itself works OK, but from any of the machines
> behind the i386, the server says I need to install identd.  Here's my
> config files:
> 
> <1 gateway /home/allen>% cat /etc/ipnat.conf
> map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 proxy port ftp ftp/tcp
> rdr fxp0 0.0.0.0/0 port 113 -> 127.0.0.1 port 113
> map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 10000:65000
> map fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/32
> 
> (I used to have 'auth' instead of '113', but at one point during the
> upgrade, it claimed that 'auth' was unknown.  The line also looked
> like this at one point:
> rdr fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 port 113 -> 127.0.0.1 port 113
> This is what worked before the upgrade:
> rdr fxp0 192.168.0.0/24 port auth -> 127.0.0.1 port auth
> )
> 


Could be it's because identd is returning bad status in this case (the
port from where the connection comes isn't owned by anyone).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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