On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Alex wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I have a NetBSD i386 machine running some fairly recent cvs-ed 1.6
> release branch build. It acts as a NAT gateway for several mac and PC
> clients. I have redirected ports to facilitate P2P sharing. When I
> start P2P clients inside the NAT, the number of mappings in the ipnat
> table (as reported by ipnat -l) quickly grows until it reaches ~256
> (the actual greatest value I've ever observed is 265) and then all
> outgoing connections (including DNS lookups) from the internal network
> fail until ipnat -F is run. This behavior is the same with or without
> the redirects. Outgoing connections from the gateway itself are fine.
>
> Anyone know how to increase the number of mappings ipnat can hold in
> its table? Is there something else I'm missing?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> -Alex.
>
>

Hm, I run NAT with filesaring clients without problems, maybe your
configuration is wrong?

Can you post the /etc/ipnat.conf?

Florian