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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:54:20 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
Cc:        root@bmccane.uit.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /var/run/natd.pid request 
Message-ID:  <199706121954.UAA05858@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:37:07 CDT." <199706121637.LAA11915@plains.NoDak.edu> 

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> >  Everything then talks fine both on the firewall machine, and from my work 
> >  machine across the room, for 0-3 minutes.  After that, the logging on the 
> >  console slows to a halt, and if I try to:
> >
> >  	ping prep.ai.mit.edu  (arbitrary choice 8)
> 
> I am using a really old (2400 baud) modem to play with this before we send
> it home with a couple professors. I completely hung the PPP connection once,
> but I figured it was the slow modem. I have been able to panic the NATD
> machine a couple of times with 2400 baud modem when I downloading big files

A "hack" has fixed the panic in 2.2 and -current for the moment.  I'm
looking at figuring out a proper fix now.

For the moment, you could try using ppp rather than pppd/natd.  Wait
'till natd is part of /usr/src :)

> --mark.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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