svn commit: r220736 - head/sbin/natd

[Garrett Cooper]

2011/4/18 Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at freebsd.org>:
> On 4/18/2011 11:13 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>>
>> This looks like a hack and better place for this hack would be shell
>> scripts rather than nat daemon.
>
> Well, I am not sure how would you apply shell script in such case. The
> problem with the original code is that natd just silently exits, leaving
> machine without a network connection. For some reason this problem started
> after upgrade from 7.4 to 8.2, perhaps there is some changes in the dhclient
> which allows it to run is parallel with other start-up activity.

I've seen the problem that you've attempted to fix here before at
home, and it actually occurred between 8.1 and 8.2. I merely hacked
things to work at home in the rc script because I didn't want to muck
around with natd's C sources.

> And I don't see any problem with natd waiting indefinitely on the interface
> to acquire IP address, it's no better and no worse than the current behavior
> when the natd simply bails out.

If it does this when backgrounded, that seems ok. If it blocks
foregrounded like this, that's not acceptable.
Thanks,
-Garrett