hanfsome wrote:

> Hi Slackware Community,
>
> I have an problem with my little Home Network wich looks like this :
>
> I have an old Laptop (DX66) as my router/Firewall and an Pentium200 as
> my Web/FTP server.
> My firewall is the gShield script wich is btw. superb imho.
>
> Now this firewall has the option to do Port Forwarding wich i configged
> also in the config file.
> Forward mydns:21 -> 192.168.0.6:21
> (The Router hasn't an FTP running.
> If i try to connect from the outside on this FTP the connection is being
> refused. (Not if i OPEN the Port instead of Forwarding.)
>
> I asked an friend who uses OpenBSD as OS and said he has an NATD Daemon
> running.

OBSD does NAT as part of the firewall. The only time you need to run
anything else is if you are running VoIP or to support active FTP.