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Subject: Re: natd slow, eats up an entire CPU...
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On 28.11.2011 00:27, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Do not use natd, use ipfw nat instead - it uses the same libalias
> but completely in kernel and avoids gigantic natd overhead.
I guess, I'll have to research this new method... But I don't recall this being 
a problem with FreeBSD-7.x -- are there some known regressions in natd from 8.x?

Thanks!

    -mi