Yet Another NATD How-To
Ok after the past few days many people in #freebsdhelp have asked the channel howto do natd. Well first of all natd is a daemon to route data from one protocol to another. For instance if you have a cable modem and two nic's. ( Network Interface Card ). So one nic can have the cable modem and the other nic can have the lan. Then all the computers on the lan can access traffic on the cable modem through natd. If you are wanting to do this then you are going to need gateway_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf to. Remember you will need a firewall enabled. This is just a natd howto.
Ok now down to business.
1) Place these lines in your /etc/rc.conf and change ep0 to the nic/protocol that you use to access the internet. For example on my network, ep0 has the internet connection through the cable modem and rl0 has the lan connection. So if tun0 has the internet connection ( ppp ) then you would put tun0 instead of ep0.
natd_program="/sbin/natd" natd_enable="YES" natd_interface="ep0" natd_flags="-config /etc/rc.natd -same_ports -log -use_sockets -dynamic"
2) Edit /etc/rc.natd ( this is where you place all your forwarding rules... you can forward ports with natd so people out in the real world can access certain ports on a lan box ).
This is what I have in my /etc/rc.natd
redirect_port tcp 10.0.0.1:51210 51210 redirect_port udp 10.0.0.1:51201 51201 redirect_port udp 10.0.0.1:51200 51200
You have the choice between tcp and udp and the port. It is straight forward what to edit. 10.0.0.1 = The lan ip. 51210 = The port.
After editing /etc/rc.natd for changes to occur you must reboot.
3) shutdown -r now
whisky
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