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From: Robby Workman <netfilter@rlworkman.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Identd requests through firewall
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:12:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <437A08D4.4030806@rlworkman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511131109.06283.rob0@gmx.co.uk>

/dev/rob0 wrote:
> 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.


Thanks for the response; I agree that midentd appears to fit the bill. 
However, I must admit that I'm surprised that a patch for this doesn't 
exist - I wish had a the knowledge to do it...

RW

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15 16:12 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
2005-11-15 16:12   ` Robby Workman [this message]

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