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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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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