natd: failed to write packet back

[Lowell Gilbert]

Steve Camp <steve at camp.com> writes:

> Can someone tell me what the following message logged to /var/log/messages
> means, and whether I ought to be concerned about it:
> 
>   Aug 29 13:41:29 server natd[180]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied)
It means a packet was blocked by ipfw after being NAT'd on the
outgoing side.