On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:56:12 -0400 (EDT)
Matthew Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > While working with a FreeBSD system this afternoon, I did something which killed
> > natd (the NAT daemon), which was processing packets in the usual way via ipfw
> > and a divert socket.
> >
> > The result? Network communications on the system simply went dead.
> >
> > It seems to me that ipfw should be able to "self-heal" (that is, bypass the
> > rule) or reinvoke a daemon that's attached to a divert socket. Otherwise,
> > the process that's attached to the socket becomes an Achilles' heel for
> > the whole system. Crash it for any reason, and the system's offline.
> >
> > Ideas?
> 
> Use kernel-mode IPNAT instead of user-mode natd?

What is kernel-mode IPNAT?

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