natd not starting on boot-up

[Panagiotis]

Roger Merritt 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"
>
> What can I do to get some indication of where the problem is?
>


Try to comment the line natd_enable="YES" and then add
a new line at the end of rc.conf:

/etc/rc.d/natd start

if this doesn't work, try to put 

natd_flags=""

in your rc.conf and plesase check your ipfw rule for nat
it should be something like this:

(with natd_flags="")
ipfw -q add divert natd all from any to any via your_public_interface


Good luck!!