From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 9:51:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from HoHenBrink.NET (adsl-63-193-117-197.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.117.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A6E15B93 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kasey@HoHenBrink.NET) Received: from hohenbrink.net (gw.hohenbrink.net [63.193.117.197]) by HoHenBrink.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00747 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37C2CB91.84514543@hohenbrink.net> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:42:57 -0700 From: "Mr. Kasey A. Hohenbrink" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Solution for: natd[130]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, Have you guys seen this error message before. Especially at home when connected to a DSL or Cable Modem? Aug 24 08:07:50 gw natd[130]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) Aug 24 08:08:11 gw last message repeated 3 times Aug 24 08:10:11 gw last message repeated 5 times Aug 24 08:17:45 gw last message repeated 11 times After reading a lot of postings, I found a post from a FreeBSD core developer who blamed this error message on his cable modem provider and stated that it looked like the ip to mac was not mapping correctly. So I added the mac address for my dsl modem manually arp -S x.x.x.x 0:10:66:0:34:72 This seems to have stopped the message completely. I have been running the machine with the change for a couple of hours and have not seen the message again. I am open to suggestions as to where the command should be put (ie: which file to edit). Kasey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message