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What is "natd" and why is it using 80% of CPU?

I noticed last night that my CPU seems way too active. I found the process "natd" in the activity viewer, and it's running at a fairly consistent 80% of CPU usage. What the heck is it? I searched for it and it's parent process "launchd", but everything it came back with was a bunch of networking stuff that's over my head...

Can anyone help?

Screenshot:
http://homepage.mac.com/ltcarter47/images/natd.png

Posted on Nov 11, 2005 6:01 PM

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Nov 11, 2005 6:53 PM in response to digitaljunkie

THere's nothing out of the ordinary in startup items:
iTuneshelper
Activity Monitor
Palm Desktop Background
iCalAlarmScheduler
Mail
iTunes
Transport Monitor (for palm sync)
Coconut (network activity monitor for the dock, I've been using this for some time, so I wouldn't think this is causing it)
& iChat

I'll quit the process and see what happen right now...

What is "natd" and why is it using 80% of CPU?

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