From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 12:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E60337B402 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA55562; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:51:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <00a701c07b47$3137f860$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Beech Rintoul" , References: <01011009391300.67658@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Subject: Re: NATD errors Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:52:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am running 4.2 on a gateway machine that is also doing public DNS. This box > is connected via static IP to a cable modem. The problem is with NATD, I'm > getting almost constant errors saying Failure to write back packet....host is > down. Aside from that everything is working properly. Is there any way to > disable that message, or reconfigure to stop it? From my experience, there is no way to get rid of or supress the error. You shouldn't see it too often. (I usually see it once or twice per day on my similarly configured box.) -- Matt Emmerton GSI Computer Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message