Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:51, David Guntner wrote:
I'm setting up some iptables rules to block certain kinds of packets on my ML 9.1 machine. The man page talks about logging options to have it
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log to the syslog, but I can't seem to figure out the exact syntax to make it work. No matter how I try, I keep getting a bad option message in response. Does anyone know what the actual syntax is on an iptables command to have it log when that particular reject rule is fired?
--Dave
man iptables /log keep hitting / until you see something helpful.
there is a page full of options.
I already did that, hence the statement that "the man page talks about logging options." :-) Problem is, there are no practical *examples* of the syntax to use, and my reading of the section on logging didn't yield anything I could use. Hence my request here for an example syntax to use.
You've already got shorewall on there, it'll be a lot faster and safer to just use it.
Shorewall would be great if I wanted all kinds of fancy firewalling. But I'm behind a DSL router and that takes care of the vast majority of my needes. But I need to put three rules into iptables to take care of a specific need. The rules are already in place, in fact. However, I would like to be able to log traffic that's blocked if I can. So if you have some information on what the correct syntax is, I would appreciate an example - because I can't seem to come up with a syntax that works, going off of the man page.
--Dave
Dave,
the example that Bill gave "is" the way to do it.
-- Mark
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