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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:17:17 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: What does "NAT: dropping untracked packet" mean?
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On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Nils Rennebarth wrote:

> Since enabling (but not yet using) firewalling in the 2.4.1 kernel, my log
> gets clobbered with messages like:
> 
> Feb  1 12:58:56 obelix kernel: NAT: 0 dropping untracked packet ce767600 1 129.69.22.21 -> 224.0.0.2
> 
> The IP Adresses belong to Windows 98 computers. What does the message mean,
> and what could I do to stop them?

It means that your box drops multicast administrative packets on the
floor.

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Matthias Andree
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