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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:00:56 +0200
From: veedee@c7.campus.utcluj.ro
To: Peter Ross <petros@pps.de>
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Subject: Re: natd: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)
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Uhm, I forgot... aren't we supposed to discuss this on another mailing list?
:) Like freebsd-net?

Sorries... 
Radu Bogdan Rusu (aka veedee)
C7 Campus Network System Administrator

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:46:04PM +0100, Peter Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> last month I installed a working (AFAIK;-) firewall using FreeBSD 4.4, ipfw 
> and natd.
> 
> Sometimes I get a message:
> 
> > Nov 22 17:31:25 tor natd[456]: failed to write packet back (Permission 
> > denied)
> > Nov 22 17:31:58 tor last message repeated 6 times
> 
> There are approximately 30 packets per day causing this message.
> 
> I can't find a corresponding message in the ipfw-logs.
> 
> While my firewall continues to work, my former FreeBSD 3.x firewall stopped 
> in this case from time to time.
> 
> Should I be worried? I hope there isn't a mistake in the ipfw rules..
> 
> Thanks for advice
> Peter Ross
> 
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