From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 13:57:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF42A14A1D; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA08964; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:56:34 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:56:34 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Josu=E9=20Jos=E9?= Souza Jr." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Natd problem In-Reply-To: <380F752C.19B28700@nexos.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Josu=E9 Jos=E9 Souza Jr. wrote: [...] > The problem is that sometimes we get this error message from natd >=20 > Oct 21 16:04:49 fw natd[106]: failed to write packet back (Host is > down) When we had this, it was due to a misconfig'd ipfw rule. Our smallish network and reproducible error allowed me to fix it quick smart. With your 700 machine network, I wish you good luck. :-) Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't forget the most important rule to live by.. Never believe anything you read on the USENET" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message