> your best solution is to add a skipto before the divert rule. Thank you, Barry, but is not that what I'm doing in the sample? > You can therefore skip any traffic from a private address to another > private address. Anything not matched by the skipto rule gets fed to > the divert socket.
The trick was to figure out, what could be skipped, and what could not. I'm wondering, if I got that right -- it seems to work find, but does it leave something open? Before I can recommend it to others, I'd like to be more sure :-) -mi > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mikhail Teterin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 7:27 AM > Subject: Does natd(8) really need to see _all_ packets? > > > > Hi! > > > > This question bothered me for a while -- most of the traffic on my > > LAN is just that -- local. Yet my gw/firewall machine only has one > > interface -- with two IP addresses -- private and public on it. > > > > The DSL modem is plugged into the switch just like everything else. > > > > I doubt this is a unique setup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message