From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 5:43:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D1D37B404 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark8 (hutch-629.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.157]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id HAA08410; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:42:31 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <001b01c07fd2$d9dd69c0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Bill Moran" , References: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com> Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:41:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" To: Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:00 PM Subject: natd & failed to write packet back > Hi all, > > A proxy/firewall/nat box I recently set up is constantly spewing out an > error from natd: > failed to write packet back [host is down] > > What exactly is happening here? This is pretty ambiguous, I mean - what > host? It seems to indicate that a machine that was using natd went > offline before the communication completed, but it's occurring > constantly (I see the message a few times a minute at times) > > Is this indicative of any type of problem, misconfig? > I don't know the answers to any of your questions, but perhaps starting natd with the -v switch will give you a clue as to what is going on. Josh > TIA, > Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message