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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
> 
> 
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