From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 12 14:00:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20573 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20565 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA05858; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:54:21 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199706121954.UAA05858@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Mark Tinguely cc: root@bmccane.uit.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/run/natd.pid request In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:37:07 CDT." <199706121637.LAA11915@plains.NoDak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:54:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....