Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:21:44 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Runaway NATD Message-ID: <200311102321.44756.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20031110160157.0142b020@10.0.0.15> References: <3.0.5.32.20031110151819.01431468@10.0.0.15> <3.0.5.32.20031110160157.0142b020@10.0.0.15>
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On Monday 10 November 2003 22:01, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 10:42 PM 11.10.2003 +0000, Daniela wrote: > >On Monday 10 November 2003 21:18, Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 - GW/router/NAT/FW/Caching DNS - Bind-8.3x + > >> IPFW(8) > >> > >> Have just setup the above to route mainly for a LAN (in place of > >> hardware router), but natd runs non-stop as per TOP(1) and keeps eating > >> up the CPU until it crashes. Takes about 1/2 hour to eat up the > >> resources and requires a reboot -- then the problem just starts over > >> again. > > > >Have you tried to attach to the process with gdb(1) or truss(1)? > >Also please show us what `ps ax` says about natd. > >Can you get a core dump? > > > >Good luck! > >Daniela > > Thanks for the quick reply. No, haven't had chance to redo the kernel for > gdb, etc. But, here's some more info from the "ps -ax" and log. The tcp > start out very small and keep growing in big leaps as below -- this is just > before running out of CPU.... I'd definitely need at least the output of truss(1) to tell what's wrong. The commands would be: # killall natd # truss /sbin/natd -f /etc/natd.conf -n rl0
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