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From: Magnus Erixzon <magnus@erixzon.se>
To: dmeyer@dmeyer.net
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Subject: Re: What does "NAT: dropping untracked packet" mean?
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 dmeyer@dmeyer.net wrote:

> I'm getting the occasional
> 
> Feb  1 13:17:08 yendi kernel: NAT: 0 dropping untracked packet
> c3ea4da0 1 146.188.249.73 -> 209.220.232.240
> 
> syslog message.  What exactly does it mean?  146.188.249.73 isn't my
> machine at all, and 209.220.232.240 is my firewall.  I assume I'm
> dropping someone's packets on the floor, but what can cause a packet
> to get dropped like that?
> 
> -- 
> Dave Meyer
> dmeyer@dmeyer.net





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