natd slow, eats up an entire CPU...

[Eugene Grosbein]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 03:43:09PM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote:

> If I flush the ipfw-rules, the natd disappears from top's list and
> the transfer speeds up to about 260Kb/s (still nowhere near the
> initial 2Mb/s, but much higher than the 10-15Kb/s).

> Please, advise. Thanks! Yours,

Do not use natd, use ipfw nat instead - it uses the same libalias
but completely in kernel and avoids gigantic natd overhead.

Eugene Grosbein