From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 6:37:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from weg.com.br (weg.com.br [200.215.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5800237B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 06:37:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by weg.com.br from localhost (router,SLMail V3.2); Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:37:38 -0200 Received: from donadel [130.0.10.197] by weg.com.br [130.0.10.11] (SLmail 3.2.3113) with SMTP id D6243C85EB9511D48E4A00A024B30980 for plus 1 more; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:37:37 -0200 Message-ID: <002501c07fc9$87f04b40$c50a0082@weg.com.br> From: "Jackson Donadel" To: "Josh Paetzel" Cc: References: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com> <001b01c07fd2$d9dd69c0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:35:10 -0200 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-SLUIDL: F3AEE9EB-EB9511D4-8E4A00A0-24B30980 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG from my litle experience, i can say that your connection had down all times i kill pppd, and some machine from my network ping some external host, this message appear at my logs check your connection stability ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Bill Moran" ; Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 1:41 PM Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back > > ----- 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message