Subject: Re: IPNAT problems
To: Brett HALES <bhales@cmpmail.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/24/2001 19:32:17
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:17:06PM +1030, Brett HALES wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently trying to get a machine to do what Linux did with IP
> Masquerade.
> 
> Initially I would like Machine A and Machine B to be able to talk to the
> Internet via NAT on Machine C.
> 
> I am running NetBSD 1.5 and have the below ipf.conf (IPFILTER) and
> ipnat.conf (IPNAT) files configured. (That do not work)
> 
> I do not want to at this stage specify a specific port for machine A or
> machine B. Eg. If Machine A wanted to talk to 145.23.12.41 on port 6667 then
> I want that to happen. I shall tinker with ipfilter latter to stop this.
> 
> Can anybody help?

Did you check that
sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding
returns 1 ?
If it returns 0, use:
sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
and things should work.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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