high cpu usage on natd / dhcpd

[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:08:59 +0000, Eggert, Lars wrote:
 > On Jan 31, 2013, at 16:03, Matthew Luckie <mjl at luckie.org.nz> wrote:
 > > 
 > > 00510 allow ip from me to not me out via em1
 > > 00550 divert 8668 ip from any to any via em1
 > > 
 > > Rule 510 fixes it.
 > 
 > Yep, it does. Can I ask someone to commit this to rc.firewall?

The ruleset Matthew posted bears no resemblance to rc.firewall, so I 
don't see that (or how) it solves any generic problem.

 > (And I wonder if the rules for the ipfw kernel firewall need a 
 > similar addition, because the system locks up under heavy network 
 > load if I use that instead of natd.)
 >
 > Lars

Which rc.firewall ruleset are you referring to?  There certainly are 
problems with the 'simple' ruleset relating to use of $natd_enable vs 
$firewall_nat_enable (not to mention the denial of ALL icmp traffic) 
that I posted patches to a couple of years ago in ipfw@ to rc.firewall 
and /etc/rc.d/{ipfw,natd) addressing about 4 PRs .. sadly to no avail.

I suggest following up to ipfw@ (cc'd) rather than net@

cheers, Ian