On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:13:07PM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: > I ran across this web page: > > http://www.muine.org/~hoang/freenat.html > > It implies that both ipfw and ipfilter can be used simultaneously on > the same box, using ipfilter as the main firewall and ipfw just to > shape the traffic via dummynet. I did not think that this was > possible. Anyone out there tried this? Any gotchas?
It should work. However, there is a problem when you NAT/RDR in combination with dummynet. Sometimes all packets get dropped for no apparent reason. I haven't investigated this, because usually you can circumvent the problem by doing dummynet on the other interface that NAT operates on. -Guido
