Andy  (andy@softbook.com) wrote:

>I'm having trouble configuring ipnat and DHCP client on  a PPC 9500 with 2
>network cards and a RoadRunner cable modem ( which BTW does not reqiure a
>login program to do authorization. Did they take down their TAS??)
> I have 2 network cards, one internal ( mc0) and a PCI Asante something or
>other (I don't have this machine here so off the top of my head..)
>Anyway, I set up the dhclient stuff per doc found in the FAQ area,
>recompiled the kernel with IPGATEWAY= yes, modified rc.conf, created
>ipnat.conf and ipf.conf, yadda,yadda - all per docs I found in the FAQ.
>Upon reboot here's what happens:
>ifconfig complains: mc0: file not ,found de0: file not found and a sundry
>of other messages most of which I don't remember unfortunately since the
>machine is not where I'm writing this from
>The dhclient gives me a lot of warnings( corrupted lease file among others)
>but assigns an IP.
>Then I see a message from ipnat : "starting. network translation....." but
>it does not show on the process list ( silently fails? proc list is not
>showing it ? )
>If then I do ifconfig -au (to show all interfaces that are up ) I see both
>mc0 ( internal) and de0 ( PCI Asante card) but it shows that the IP address
>as 0.0.0.0.  on both interfaces!!!
>I can use the Internet and my internal machines can ping me ( which means
>both interfaces are working fine)   ipnat is not running. What am I missing?
>Has anyone successfully done whgat I'm trying to do?
>Pointers to more info??
>Sorry for the confusing message. I will dig for more detailed logs if
>anyone requests them

I have a configuration working with IPNAT on an ADSL line configured with 
DHCP from my ISP using only a single ethernet interface -- not exactly 
the same but pretty close.  A description of my setup and the various 
configuration files can be found on my system at:

  <http://murphy.dyndns.org/NetBSD>

These files have been used by a couple of other people to successfully 
install similar setups on their systems.

-bob