Re: Forcing rdr rules to load

Alexandre Vasconcelos wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a bunch of windows clients running LPR service listening on port
> 515 behind my IPFilter box (3.4.35) with FreeBSD 4.11 receiving printing
> jobs from a mainframe. Each client have a different address, so I have
> to add one IP on the outside interface (xl1) to make a rdr rule to this
> client (rdr xl1 outside-IP/32 port 515 -> client-IP 515 tcp). So far so
> good. Well, while trying to load this rules I get "can't resolv
> hostname: client-IP/32, syntax error in "rdr"". It makes sense, IPFilter
> checks if this machine is up to load the rule, but these are windows and
> sometimes while reloading it may be offline.. there is a way to force
> IPFilter to load this rdr rules even if on of this clients is offline?
>
> Thanks.

Sorry guys, my mistake.. It was a syntax error (duh), I was trying:
rdr xl1 outside-IP/32 port 515 -> client-IP/32 515 tcp
^^^
Removing /32 did the job.
Sorry.

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Alexandre Vasconcelos
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