From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 19:13: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bsdhome.dyndns.org (rdu25-18-195.nc.rr.com [24.25.18.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0D937B8FA for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 19:13:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@bsdhome.com) Received: from vger.bsdhome.com (vger [192.168.220.2]) by bsdhome.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09511; Sat, 13 May 2000 22:12:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsd@bsdhome.com) Received: from localhost (bsd@localhost) by vger.bsdhome.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA47800; Sat, 13 May 2000 22:12:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsd@vger.bsdhome.com) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 22:12:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Dean To: Chris <97Efcw@alumni.ee.ust.hk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: natd: failed to write packet back Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 May 2000, Chris wrote: > I am using a freebsd box as a gateway to connect to internet. It is > running natd. I find in the /var/log/messages that "natd[13276]: failed > to write packet back (Permission denied)" quite often. I try to enable > the log of natd, but nothing special here. I also check my firewall log > but nothing is denied. Any clues? Your firewall is blocking the packet. If you are not seeing anything in /var/log/security indicating that the packet was blocked, it is most likely due to the fact that the rule that blocked it is not being logged. -Brian -- Brian Dean bsd@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message