SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

[Joe]

Okay, I've been looking and looking for duplicate natd's.

I have the /etc/rc.conf which has natd stuff below, and the only
other place I see it is in ipfw.  

I was able to change my rc and use /etc/rc.d/natd start and that
works.  Which is better as it does not require me to reload my
firewall rules.  

I still don't know why natd refuses to start the first time when
called from ipfw.  

I have no rc.conf.local

Joe

--- Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> Joe wrote:
> 
> >Okay, back on topic.
> >
> >I've changed my rules in ipfw, and no longer get the hostname
> ..
> >messages.  
> >
> >Now natd does not start and it complains 'unable to bind
> divert
> >socket, and then cant assign requested address'.  I'm using:
> >
> >natd_enable="YES"
> >natd_interface="dc0"
> >natd_flags="-dynamic -d -log_ipfw_denied -log_denied"
> >  
> >
> 
> These are my parameters below which definitely work -- or you
> wouldn't 
> be seeing this email :)  I can't see anything obviously wrong
> with 
> yours; what I would suggest is to start with just "-dynamic"
> since 
> that's the only one that's *required* for this setup to work
> and see how 
> that does.  I can't find your original rules: I assume that a)
> dc0 *is* 
> your external interface (typos are a common source of errors,
> though I 
> don't think that's the case here) b) you have an
> ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" 
> line in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> natd_enable="YES"                               # Natd packet
> translation
> natd_flags="-log -log_denied -dynamic"
> natd_interface="sis0"
> ifconfig_sis0="DHCP"                            # External
> network
> 
> At startup I get a message like:
> 
> Jun 18 10:38:58 natd[701]: Aliasing to 0.0.0.0, mtu 1500 bytes
> 
> just after the firewall rules start up.
> 
> The divert rule in my firewall says:
> 
> ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via ${natd_interface}
> 
> If you have static rules rather than a script then you need 
> ${natd_interface} to be replaced directly with dc0.
> 
> The other things to check, I guess, are that those are the
> *only* natd 
> lines you have:
> 
> egrep natd /etc/rc.conf /etc.rc.conf.local
> 
> --Alex
> 
> 



		
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