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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:16:19 -0400
From:      "Douglas Cohen" <douglas@artswire.org>
To:        <bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: NATD - Console Message Question 
Message-ID:  <000c01bf19cf$8d313440$0105a8c0@sterndog.net>
In-Reply-To: <199910190048.RAA22767@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov>

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Thanks Bruce,

So how do I figure out what packets natd is unable to write back?

-----Original Message-----
From: bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov [mailto:bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov]On Behalf
Of Bruce A. Mah
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 8:49 PM
To: douglas@artswire.org
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: NATD - Console Message Question

If memory serves me right, "Douglas Cohen" wrote:
> I'm running ipfw with natd, connecting my RFC 1918 LAN to the Internet.
>
> The ipfw rules only allow internal LAN users access to external Internet
> services (email, http, telnet, dns, passive mode ftp).
>
> Everything seems to be working fine, except that the following natd
message
> keeps appearing on the console:
>
>      natd[173]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)
>
> I understand about failing to write the packet back, but what does [173]
> signify in terms of natd?  (looking in the services file,
> xyplex-mux is assigned to port 173, which somehow doesn't seem
> relevant).

173 is the PID (process ID) of the natd process.  Usually, anything in
[brackets] that shows up in a logfile, after the name of a daemon, is a
PID

Bruce.





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