From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 19:53: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.millennium20.com (smtp.thecyberguys.net [209.79.190.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B92037B82F for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 19:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@bayouhome.net) Received: from gforce.johnson.home (1Cust46.tnt2.covington.la.da.uu.net [63.31.31.46]) by smtp.millennium20.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e4E1oD318066; Sat, 13 May 2000 18:50:13 -0700 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01371; Sat, 13 May 2000 21:52:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:52:57 -0500 To: Chris <97Efcw@alumni.ee.ust.hk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd: failed to write packet back Message-ID: <20000513215257.A1252@gforce.johnson.home> References: <391D4B38.E9E3BEBB@alumni.ee.ust.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <391D4B38.E9E3BEBB@alumni.ee.ust.hk>; from 97Efcw@alumni.ee.ust.hk on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 08:29:18PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 08:29:18PM +0800, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > 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? > > The box is running 4.0-stable cvsup'ed month ago. I believe there is some discussion of this error in the mail archives so you may want to check there. You do not say what type of firewall you are running, "OPEN, CLIENT, SIMPLE" as defined in /etc/rc.conf so it could be any number of things. You could run natd in verbose mode and watch the output so you can see what natd is doing. There is a good chance that ICMP traffic is causing the error. Hope that helps. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@bayouhome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message