Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:50:15 +0100 From: "Klaus A. Brunner" <k.brunner@acm.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Message-ID: <3A732677.6618BCE4@acm.org>
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(referring to <E14IQZ0-0005bR-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> on -questions) > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:00:20PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > 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] > > ... > In a similar vain, what does the above message indicate but > accompanied by a "permission denied" as the reason ? This has already been discussed numerous times (search the list archives). I've been struggling with this problem, too. In my case the culprit turned out to be a misconfigured Samba, broadcasting onto a subnet explicitly blocked by ipfw (actually, that subnet didn't even exist). To find out, I patched /usr/src/sbin/natd.c and made the error message a little more verbose. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24683 Klaus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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