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Subject: bin/9253: received packets piling up on natd's ICMP socket
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>Number:         9253
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       received packets piling up on natd's ICMP socket
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 31 03:50:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Juha Nurmela
>Organization:
ACME Inc.
>Release:        3.0-CURRENT
>Environment:
FreeBSD pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org 3.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Dec 20 02:0 8:52 EET 1998
junki@pena.oh5nxo.ampr.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/PENA  i386
>Description:
natd creates an icmp socket to send packets out
and never reads anything from the socket.
The socket slowly queues all incoming packets.
>How-To-Repeat:
natd -interface ep0
ipfw divert natd ip from any to any via ep0
...time passes...
netstat -a | grep \^icmp
>Fix:
*** /usr/src/usr.sbin/natd/natd.c      Thu Dec 31 13:05:55 1998
--- /usr/src/usr.sbin/natd/natd.c.old  Thu Dec 31 13:04:25 1998
***************
*** 230,244 ****
                routeSock = -1;
  /*
   * Create socket for sending ICMP messages.
-  * Disable reads for the socket, otherwise it slowly fills
-  * up with received icmps which we do not use.
   */
        icmpSock = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_ICMP);
        if (icmpSock == -1)
                Quit ("Unable to create ICMP socket.");
- 
-       shutdown(icmpSock, SHUT_RD);
- 
  /*
   * Become a daemon unless verbose mode was requested.
   */
--- 230,239 ----

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