Hi,

I confirm this bug. I've experienced the same icmp errors with three
different firewalls  using 4.4 and nat.

If I add the static-port option to the nat rule then no icmp errors are
experienced, so it's something to do with the nap port relocation. 

Bye

S.


Imre Oolberg-3 wrote:
> 
> Hallo again!
> 
> When i access internet from behind nat'ting OpenBSD 4.4-current i386 
> platform firewall (20090121 snapshot, under Xen HVM quest if this test 
> then qualifies) i get randomly icmp host unreachable messages. At the 
> same time network traffic is low and this test firewall is not under any 
> mentionable load. For example about five to ten icmp error messages 
> appear from firewall to wget client when issuing 300 wgets i a raw, like 
> this
> 
> $ for i in `seq 1 300`; do wget "http://172.16.0.12/README?count=$i"; -O
> - 1>dhs.$i.log; done
> 
> # tcpdump -nttti ne3 icmp
> tcpdump: listening on ne3, link-type EN10MB
> Jan 25 15:21:04.986368 192.168.10.210 > 192.168.10.10: icmp: host 
> x.x.x.x unreachable
> Jan 25 15:21:06.444112 192.168.10.210 > 192.168.10.10: icmp: host 
> x.x.x.x unreachable
> ...
> 
> And insterting one second delay between wgets reduces icmp errors a lot.
> 
> I belive it has something to do with a firewall's natting because with 
> plain routing it seems to work all right.
> 
> I would be very greateful if somebody could comment on this.
> 

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