From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 23:30:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 326C037B401 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14IQZ0-0005bR-00; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:29:54 +0000 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Bill Moran , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:29:54 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:00:20PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > 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] > > > > What exactly is happening here? This is pretty ambiguous, I mean - what > > host? It seems to indicate that a machine that was using natd went > > offline before the communication completed, but it's occurring > > constantly (I see the message a few times a minute at times) > > It means a packet that was processed by natd(8) is dropped by a later > rule in the firewall. > > > Is this indicative of any type of problem, misconfig? > > It could be if the packet should not be dropped. In a similar vain, what does the above message indicate but accompanied by a "permission denied" as the reason ? Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message