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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To: "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: natd slow, eats up an entire CPU...
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:12:52PM -0500, Mikhail T. 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?

I do not know since there is no reason in using natd with 8.2-STABLE
where it supports nearly all natd's features including multiple
NAT instances and shared translation tables.

Eugene Grosbein