NAT problems when world+kernel compiled with -O2

[Bernd Walter]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:49:44AM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I ran a cvsup on current yesterday at around 9:50pm EST. Being curious if
> the world compiles with -O2 yet, I gave it a shot. everything compiled
> fine, no errors. After a mergemaster, and the reboot everything seemed
> fine. At this point I went over to my windows machine (which uses the fbsd
> box as a nat gateway) and I noticed that internet was not working. I was
> unable to establish any TCP connections to the internet. DNS however was
> working fine and TCP connections to the box itself worked as well.
> Internet was also accessible from the fbsd box. I couldn’t find any
> obvious errors in the configuration (it was not changed since the last
> cvsup, ~3 weeks ago), so I decided to recompile without -O2, and
> everything started working ok again. I understand that -O2 is not
> officially supported, but maybe this can point out some problem that
> should be looked in to. Here are my make.conf options that were used:

Yes - libalias doesn't like -O2.
Recompile libalias without -O2 and maybe without setting CPUTYPE and
you are fine.
IIRC packets go out fine, but incoming packets just get into natd and
never come out again.

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