never mind. "ipfw fwd" does exactly what I am after, I misunderstood the command line.
Quoting Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have some machines behind a freebsd firewall, and I'm using ipfw. > > Presently, I reset attempts to smtp past the firewall: > > reset tcp from [subnet] to any 25 > > but I'd like to divert them to my own smtp server, so it doesn't > matter what the clients try to use. > > I thought this would be easy. Maybe it is. > > The "fwd" feature doesn't seem to do it, as it just forwards a > specific ipaddr[,port] (no subnet/mask) > > "divert" looks like the way to do it, and after a few hours of > fiddling with a program that opens a divert socket, I can watch > all manner of traffic going back and forth, but each time > I attempt to send it elsewhere, I get nowhere. I am duly > setting both the ip and tcp checksum, before re-injection. > > Somebody else must have done this, and/or I must be doing it > the wrong way. > > Any suggestions ? Please e-mail me directly also as I am > not on this list. A code snippet using divert would > be excellent. > > -- > Bruce Campbell > Engineering Computing > CPH-2374B > University of Waterloo > (519)888-4567 ext 5889 > > ---------------------------------------- > This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca > -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 5889 ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
