Re: NAT dropping packets

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 18:18:01 EST


Henrik Størner writes:
> In <200009201021.LAA23721@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
>
> >NAT: 3 dropping untracked packet c065d3a0 1 192.168.0.1 -> 192.168.0.9
>
> I see loads of these, in a firewall (state matching) and SNAT setup.
> When I send mail, I see them quite regularly. It is quite annoying,
> since they get dumped to the active text-mode console, in addition to
> being logged.

Note that I'm not complaining about the warning - the warning is pointing
dead at a bug there (since ping -b broadcast on a network containing
a NAT box causes every other non-NAT box to respond). It was more an
observation with reproduction instructions than a real in-depth bug
report.
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