natd not starting on boot-up

[Roger Merritt]

At 02:12 AM 6/7/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>On 6/7/06, Nick Withers <nick at nickwithers.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:18 +0700
>>Roger Merritt <mcrogerm at stjohn.ac.th> wrote:
>>
>> > At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote:
>> > >On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700
>> > >Roger Merritt <mcrogerm at 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
>>
>>Perhaps there's something wrong in the branch at present...?
>>Doubtful, I guess.
>>
>> > >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
>>
>>Hmmm... Well that all seems OK, then.
>>
>>The only other thing I can think of is that the
>>'router_enable'="YES"' line's creating dramas.
>>
>>As I understand it, this'll cause /etc/rc.d/routed to attempt to
>>launch the routing daemon specified by a 'router="..."' line,
>>which you don't appear to have. I don't think this'd interfere
>>with natd anyway, but I don't really understand what the hell's
>>going on in /etc/rc.d/routed.
>>
>>Sorry I can't be more helpful!
>>--
>
>I don't run route(daemon) so I don't know about router_enable, but
>here is what I have in my rc.conf to get natd working:
>
>#router stuff
>natd_program="/sbin/natd"
>natd_enable="YES"
>natd_interface="rl0"
>natd_flags="-dynamic -f /etc/natd.conf"
>gateway_enable="YES"
>
>So I use gateway_enable not router_enable.
>
>I don't know if this applies to your problem completely, but might be
>worth a shot.

Well, I tried commenting it out and restarting. Everything seems to work 
without it, but natd still didn't start.

I can't remember exactly why I decided it should be in there (I also have 
'gateway_enable="YES"'), but it must have been something I read when I 
first started using FreeBSD back eight or ten years ago. Well, I'll leave 
it commented out for a while and see if other problems show up.


-- 
Roger