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From: /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Identd requests through firewall
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:09:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511131109.06283.rob0@gmx.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43776DB5.8050702@rlworkman.net>

On Sunday 2005-November-13 10:45, Robby Workman wrote:
> What I would like to do is forward the request to one of the boxes
> behind the firewall (whichever one is attempting a connection with an
> IRC server).  I know how to forward them all to one of the individual
> machines (say box 1), but this does not help if I'm using one of the
> other boxes to connect.

Perhaps an easier solution than a patch of the IRC helper driver to 
handle auth requests: run midentd on your firewall machine.
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/midentd/
Haven't tried it, myself. You would need to ACCEPT auth at the firewall 
(INPUT chain). Probably the only way around that is the aforementioned 
patch.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-13 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-13 16:45 Identd requests through firewall Robby Workman
2005-11-13 17:09 ` /dev/rob0 [this message]
2005-11-15 16:12   ` Robby Workman

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