Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:57:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dead natd -> dead system Message-ID: <200307101957.NAA01395@lariat.org>
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While working with a FreeBSD system this afternoon, I did something which killed natd (the NAT daemon), which was processing packets in the usual way via ipfw and a divert socket. The result? Network communications on the system simply went dead. It seems to me that ipfw should be able to "self-heal" (that is, bypass the rule) or reinvoke a daemon that's attached to a divert socket. Otherwise, the process that's attached to the socket becomes an Achilles' heel for the whole system. Crash it for any reason, and the system's offline. Ideas? --Brett Glass
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