The setting:

Network topology:
Internet---Campus Network---(xl0)FreeBSD NATD machine(xl1)---Internal host

A custom kernel build including the following options:
options IPFIREWALL
options IPDIVERT
Used the command:
sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
And started natd with natd -interface xl0

Then did, straight from the manpage, the following firewall rules:
/sbin/ipfw -f flush
/sbin/ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via xl0
/sbin/ipfw add pass all from any to any

Now NAT works perfectly for the internal host, but (almost) all TCP connections cease 
to work to/from the NATD machine. AFAIK UDP and ICMP work perfectly. I've tried this 
on two different FreeBSD machines in the same network with identical results. If I 
remove the divert rule, everything works perfectly, except of course for the NAT. 
There have been no similar, puzzling effects on any Linux hosts I know of in the same 
network. Therefore I'm sure there's some knob I haven't pushed yet :)

I'm aware this doesn't make much of a firewall but I'd like to get natd working before 
I run the firewall script.

--
Kim Helenius
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