From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 3 04:26:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF1316A41C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 04:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smartweb@leadhill.net) Received: from natco8.natcotech.com (natco8.natcotech.com [205.167.142.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B95143D1D for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 04:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smartweb@leadhill.net) Received: from localhost (int9.natcotech.com [192.168.1.9]) by natco8.natcotech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719DF29804B for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:26:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from natco8.natcotech.com ([192.168.1.8]) by localhost (natco9 [192.168.1.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02885-01-7 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:26:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ibm.nlcc.us (ldhl-ras1-dial-12-28-24-127.natcotech.com [12.28.24.127]) by natco8.natcotech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3CE29801F for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:26:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 38561 invoked by uid 89); 3 Jun 2005 04:26:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (billy@192.168.0.2) by ibm.nlcc.us with SMTP; 3 Jun 2005 04:26:31 -0000 Message-ID: <429FDBF7.3050709@leadhill.net> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:26:31 -0500 From: Billy Newsom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at natco9.natcotech.com Subject: ipnat problems on RELENG_5 (ipnat fails to load its tables) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:26:33 -0000 Since I am having ipnat problems on FreeBSD 5.4, and none on 5.3, I was hoping to help out the matter of tracking down the bug. I was wanting a little help with backing out some CVS changes made in the last three months to the kernel. I see now that ipnat has undergone a major update between 5.3 and 5.4. And whatever happened, caused me (and apparently a few others) grief: ipnat won't load its tables at boot time, although it runs as if it is fine. I have filed a PR, and started a thread on freebsd-stable, but now I need some help. I have tried the only suggestion I got on the other list -- to enable ipv6. No good. My future plans are to run the GENERIC kernel (but one person with this problem was using the GENERIC kernel), and to backout the CVS changes. I don't really know how to build a custom kernel like this, though. Also, is there any debugging or programs I could run during the times of failure to see any unusual activity on the systems? See PR 81606 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/81606 See threads at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-May/015329.html and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-May/015507.html See CVS changes at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ The maintainer and author of ipfilter was doing this: "Merge the changes from 3.4.35 to 4.1.8 into the kernel source tree" Thanks Billy