RE: NAT from the LAN

	Bumping my thread...just looking to understand what this feature is supposed to provide and how to set it up.


Steve Yates wrote on Sat, Nov 12 2011 at 10:13 pm:

> 1.33 adds this change:
> 
> "inbound NAT rules can now be added on the LAN interface with the WAN
> address as a target; this helps with accessing servers on an optional interface
> from the LAN interface by using m0n0wall's WAN IP address"
> 
> Does that literally mean ONLY optional interfaces, and that a LAN->WAN IP->
> LAN connection is still not supported?  Does "target" mean the "NAT IP" field
> in the firewall rule edit page?
> 
> Overall I saw some odd behavior when experimenting with this, which may
> have been me shooting myself in the foot.  :)  I added a NAT rule on LAN for
> HTTPS to point to a WAN IP, and when saving I lost connection halfway through
> the page load, but was immediately able to reconnect.  (It probably didn't help
> that I was connected to m0n0wall using HTTPS at the time.)  However I then
> edited that rule, and though my change was recorded (but not yet Applied) all
> the firewall rules had been erased/lost, but I could restore from backup.