Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:27:50 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Message-ID: <20010115232750.J97980@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> In-Reply-To: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com>; from wmoran@mail.iowna.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:00:20PM -0500 References: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com>
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:00:20PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Hi all, > > A proxy/firewall/nat box I recently set up is constantly spewing out an > error from natd: > failed to write packet back [host is down] > > What exactly is happening here? This is pretty ambiguous, I mean - what > host? It seems to indicate that a machine that was using natd went > offline before the communication completed, but it's occurring > constantly (I see the message a few times a minute at times) It means a packet that was processed by natd(8) is dropped by a later rule in the firewall. > Is this indicative of any type of problem, misconfig? It could be if the packet should not be dropped. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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