From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 18: 4:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu (ARTSNET.HEINZ.CMU.EDU [128.2.46.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF081561B for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:04:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from douglas@artswire.org) Received: from mollymiyagi (w238.z216112229.nyc-ny.dsl.cnc.net [216.112.229.238]) by artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA27651; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:04:25 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Douglas Cohen" To: Cc: Subject: RE: NATD - Console Message Question Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:16:19 -0400 Message-ID: <000c01bf19cf$8d313440$0105a8c0@sterndog.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199910190048.RAA22767@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message