Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:15:08 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd "host is down" messages Message-ID: <20010614091508.B50901@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200106131731.f5DHVAZ67314@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:31:10PM -0400 References: <200106131731.f5DHVAZ67314@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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Run natd(8) in verbose mode for a while to see which packets trigger this message. The guilty packet should be destined to a directly reachable host on a local network. On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:31:10PM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I installed natd so that vmware machines could access the network and my > own machine. When I'm notusing it (and haven't used it since boot), > I get gaggles of console messages that > > > Jun 13 13:03:12 fac13 natd[171]: failed to write packet back (Host is down) > Jun 13 13:03:30 fac13 last message repeated 12 times > Jun 13 13:05:40 fac13 last message repeated 4 times > Jun 13 13:09:38 fac13 last message repeated 7 times > Jun 13 13:26:01 fac13 last message repeated 25 times > > > As I understand things (which is probably wrong), nothing should be > talking to natd anyway. My machine is up, its gateway is up, and the > virtual machine on the 192. network is not up--which means that it > shouldn't be sending anything for natd to worry about. > > hawk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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