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From: Roman Neuhauser <dev-null@bellavista.cz>
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# brett@lariat.org / 2003-07-10 13:57:33 -0600:
> While working with a FreeBSD system this afternoon, I did something which killed
> natd (the NAT daemon), which was processing packets in the usual way via ipfw
> and a divert socket.
> 
> The result? Network communications on the system simply went dead.
> 
> It seems to me that ipfw should be able to "self-heal" (that is, bypass the
> rule) or reinvoke a daemon that's attached to a divert socket. Otherwise,
> the process that's attached to the socket becomes an Achilles' heel for
> the whole system. Crash it for any reason, and the system's offline.
> 
> Ideas?

    sysutils/daemontools ?

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