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I have at home a G4 as a NAT router+print server+firewall, a hub, and plenty of portables that plug in different places of the house.

However upon waking from sleep or after long uptimes, CUPS will go nuts and printers won't show for anyone.
This is always fixed by a restart ... however 'natd' won't start by default unless started.

I remember that there was a way to start it up by default in OS X 10.1 ...
Can it be done by modifying the rc script or else ?

Also, once started the 'natd' has low priority, so many times the internet connection will have lag in streams, games, etc.
This is fixed easily by a sudo renice -20, but upon restart you can't even start the nat daemon without logging in, much less access terminal each time.


Does anyone know how can I make a script or else that will allow me to start the natd and give it maximum priority upon startup ?

Thx

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Not sure if this can help, but if you enable Internet Connection Sharing in System Prefs, natd will be started automatically.

Otherwise, just add a line in your rc script to launch natd automatically (use nice to run it with the specified nice value).

Another solution (cleaner let's say) would be to add a Startup Item in /Library/StartupItems.
Just have a look at /System/Library/StartupItems for examples.

(You can have a look at this nice HOWTO about StartupItems )