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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:20:53 -0500
From:      Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@compar.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dead natd -> dead system
Message-ID:  <20030711182053.022b3292.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030710165545.L32209-100000@skippyii.compar.com>
References:  <200307101957.NAA01395@lariat.org> <20030710165545.L32209-100000@skippyii.compar.com>

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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:56:12 -0400 (EDT)
Matthew Emmerton <matt@compar.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Use kernel-mode IPNAT instead of user-mode natd?

What is kernel-mode IPNAT?



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