[Serusers] Progress on *BSD Platforms

John Todd jtodd at loligo.com
Wed Jan 29 00:22:21 CET 2003


>I also have found myself moving over to Free- and OpenBSD for most
>workstation and server needs, but I keep an install of Mandrake handy
>for those few apps that don't port to well over to the BSD platforms.
>What I'm really interested in is stund support in OpenBSD that
>integrated w/ pf, seeing as how the majority of my firewalls are now
>OpenBSD 3.1-3.2 boxes running the new pf code.  Ser itself runs great on
>FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, which is what I use as my testing platform, but
>this NAT stuff is really killing me when it comes to bringing in
>potential callers over the WAN.  Any word on when a *BSD-compatible
>binary of stund might be available?  Thanks.
>
>--
>Art Mason CCNA
>Network Consultant
>Maverick Datacom
>E-mail: amason at maverickdatacom.com

You're in the same boat as I am.  I'm already on OpenBSD, and 
kludging the NAT workarounds really is uncomfortable using Linux as a 
host for running only stund.

Of course, I'd really just like Cisco's NAT re-writing to 
automatically work, since all I'm using are Cisco UA's (ATA-186.) 
They claim that if the server can send "received=" in the Via 
headers, their systems will automatically forget and re-write the 
request with the 'correct' IP address, however in practice I have not 
been able to make that work, and I have heard of nobody who is more 
clueful than I am being able to make it work, either.  (see the 
"Receiver-tagged VIA header" section in the document 
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/ata/atarn/186rn214.htm#xtocid17 
- note that this is for release 2.14, and I'm running 2.15, but I 
would be surprised if they removed functionality.)

I am very interested in Maxim's port of stund to FreeBSD, though.  I 
could not get it working using the stund I found on Vovida's page 
(http://www.vovida.org/downloads/stun/stund_0.7.tgz) and the patch 
failed.  Patching by hand did not solve the makefile problems. 
Before I invest any more time: is this the right source to be 
patching against?

JT



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