Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:18 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> Subject: Re: natd not starting on boot-up Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20060607151302.00b25118@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <20060607163508.561b6db3.nick@nickwithers.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20060607120734.00a80700@127.0.0.1> <5.2.0.9.0.20060607120734.00a80700@127.0.0.1>
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At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote: >On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700 >Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> wrote: > > > I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD > system to > > a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the instructions and > had > > to make a completely new install. Everything now seems to be working the > > way it should, Apache, MySQL, PHP, syslog, Samba -- except natd. > Everything > > starts on boot-up as it should -- except natd. I can start it manually > from > > the command line after booting up and logging in and it works fine, but I > > can't tell what's going on that it's failing to start. > > > > My /etc/rc.conf contains the following: > > > > # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > > defaultrouter="203.151.134.1" > > gateway_enable="YES" > > hostname="poppy.international.stjohn.ac.th" > > ifconfig_ed0="inet 10.3.16.125 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > ifconfig_ed1="inet 203.151.134.104 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > router_enable="YES" > > firewall_enable="YES" > > firewall_type="OPEN" > > firewall_quiet="YES" > > natd_enable="YES" > > natd_interface="ed1" > > ipv6_enable="YES" > > linux_enable="YES" > > moused_enable="YES" > > moused_port="/dev/sysmouse" > > moused_type="auto" > > screen="daemon" > > nfs_client_enable="YES" > > sshd_enable="YES" > >That looks alright to me... > > > What can I do to get some indication of where the problem is? > >Are there any error messages relating to IPFW / natd on boot? No, or at least none I could see. That's why I've asked for help. >What version of FreeBSD are you running? 6.1-STABLE >What's the command >you're running that _does_ launch natd successfully? "/sbin/natd -n ed1". I hadn't thought about "/etc/rc.d/natd start" until someone suggested it, but that works too and reads the interface from /etc/rc.conf. > What's the >output of "ls -l /etc/rc.d/natd"? [poppy] ~# ls -l /etc/rc.d/natd -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 978 May 31 09:52 /etc/rc.d/natd -- Roger
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