From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 17:54:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AAE137B6A7 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f111oMW76366; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:50:22 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:50:22 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: mel kravitz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd call Message-ID: <20010201145022.A76174@itouchnz.itouch> References: <3A78BB39.4A3DAA83@switchpwr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A78BB39.4A3DAA83@switchpwr.com>; from melk@switchpwr.com on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:26:17AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:26:17AM +0000, mel kravitz wrote: > Hi, > Running 4.1 on an i386 box, updated to 4.1 after succesfully using 2.2.8 > > for 2+ years. > I normally start natd from /sbin/natd -m -f /etc/natd.conf > (/etc/rc.conf.local) > where /etc/natd.conf file is included below : > ipfw rules contain proper divert call to tx0 > my question is i am getting a large number of /var/log/messages: > natd "failed to write packet back (permission denied)" This indicates that your f/w rules are blocking packets on the way back out. > If i start natd from /etc/rc.conf file how do i call natd.conf? In /etc/rc.conf: natd_enable="YES" natd_flags="-f /etc/natd.conf" -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message