Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:29:54 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Message-ID: <E14IQZ0-0005bR-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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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. In a similar vain, what does the above message indicate but accompanied by a "permission denied" as the reason ? Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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