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Posted: **Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:14 pm**

I'm trying to enable NAT by using lwip from esp-idf, but the function to do it seems that isn't working properly.
The first image shows the "if" that must work to execute the ip_napt_init function where the necessary structures are initialized, but here this 'if' is never executed, so the NAT is never enabled. This function do not returns a error when the process did not work properly, so I will know that it didn't work only when I try to disable the NAT, in this case, the ip_napt_deinit is called (more below in the same image).

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The second image is the code from ip_napt_init

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The third image is ip_napt_deinit function, the board is crashing because it tries to free a memory that wasn't allocate before.

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Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:35 pm**

Hi,

Most probably, your interface is either not up yet, or it has not been allocated an IP address. Quick workaround would be to sleep for a couple of seconds (until interface is up and DHCP allocates an IP address to it). Better solution would be to check the status of the interface using

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esp_netif_is_netif_up()

function. Then, all you need is to wait until the interface is up and running before calling

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ip_napt_enable()

for that interface. Hope it helps.

Regards,

Mladen

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