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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: DHCPD question...
In-Reply-To: <000101c13a11$16e49a20$da0b010a@tsaignmobl> "from Tony Saign at
 Sep 10, 2001 08:55:59 am"
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Tony Saign writes:
>  I have a FreeBSD (4.3) system running dhcpd, ipfw, and natd. 2 NICS one
> external net (internet), and 1 internal net.
> Everything is working normally, I can connect with all internal systems to
> web/ftp/email/ssh, etc. services.
> 
> I am getting console error messages stating;
> 
> Sep 10 07:24:06 p3 dhcpd: send_packet: Permission denied
> Sep 10 07:24:08 p3 last message repeated 5 times
> Sep 10 07:33:01 p3 natd[222]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)
> Sep 10 07:33:01 p3 natd[222]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)

That error is typically due to a packet hitting a firewall rule.
Check your ipfw ruleset.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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