Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:55:10 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: natd & failed to write packet back Message-ID: <01011523551000.02838@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com> References: <3A63C754.AEA088A@mail.iowna.com>
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I had the same problem. I found that blocking non routeable IP's on my external interface cured it. 192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12 10.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 Hope this helps... On Monday 15 January 2001 19:00, you 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) > > Is this indicative of any type of problem, misconfig? > > TIA, > Bill > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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