March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
252 pages
4h 24m
English
This recipe describes how to create an outbound NAT rule.
An outbound NAT rule defines how traffic leaving a network will be translated. This can be a difficult concept to grasp at first since most general networking scenarios are only concerned with where network packets are headed, not what they look like when they leave.
This recipe will describe how to use an outbound NAT rule to solve a common scenario which involves NATing to a single machine with multiple interfaces. We will assume that we have a single destination server with two interfaces—LAN and DMZ, and our pfSense firewall is protecting both interfaces. Using a regular old port-forward rule, we forward HTTP requests to the server on its DMZ ...
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