Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:21:05 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Brent Bailey <brentb@loa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAT question Message-ID: <3B13A241.FE7EDA75@iowna.com> References: <002f01c0e83d$9b8e0980$3ab4a8c0@kronos>
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Brent Bailey wrote: > > IM running a FBSD 4.3 box as a firewall gateway w/ PPPoE & NATd & > IPFW...anyway everything seems to be ok > although i keep getting an error message saying, > > "natd[109] failed to write packet back permission denied" > > can anyone give me an idea what this means ?? You've got some sort of loop in the firewall/NAT system. Basically, NAT is translating a packet that's destined for the local machine, then getting itself into trouble trying to deliver the packet. (at least, if I remember correctly ...) My experience with this is it's caused by nonsesnse broadcast traffic. You can eliminate it by tightening down the firewall to ignore a lot of traffic (stuff like SMB broadcasts) It doesn't seem to hurt performance noticably, though. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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