From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 18 16:43:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F55F37B418 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.244.107.180.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.107.180] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 165cWi-00017y-00; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:43:08 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAJ0gg470865; Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:42:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:42:42 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mike Semcheski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: natd failed to write packet back Message-ID: <20011118164242.G69555@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011118150047.E69555@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jimmyjump77@hotmail.com on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:22:34PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:22:34PM -0500, Mike Semcheski wrote: > My question is this: > What is causing this message to occur so often? A packet diverted to natd(8) is dropped by a later rule in the firewall. > What is NATD trying to do > that IPFW is preventing? Write packets that get dropped later in the firewall. > How can I stop it from cutting in and annoying me > when I am in the console? Change syslog.conf(5) accordingly or rearrange your firewall rules so that the offending packets are dropped _before_ they go through natd(8). Use the -v option of natd(8) and the 'log' ipfw(8) rule entry to figure out what kind of traffic is making the problems. There have also been some flame wa^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdebates about making changes to natd(8) to change this logging behavior. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message