Scott:
        Heya. Sorry for the late reply; I hadn't yet seen
one to your post, so I thought I'd chime in:

> Is there a way to prevent logging of certain events?  Someone on my subnet
> is requesting DHCP packets constantly and it's filling up my logs quickly.
> Is it possible to still deny the packets but not log that particular
> request?  I'm using dachstein101 and I love it.
>
> The log entry in question:
>
> Nov 20 21:46:39 mail kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 0.0.0.0:68
> 255.255.255.255:67 L=328 S=0x00 I=47984 F=0x4000 T=64 (#4).

        Checkout the echowall.lrp package. It's got a whole section
at the end called "reduce noise in the log files". There's a half
dozen things, like the DHCP request above, which will fill your
ramdisks with harmless noise. To see how harmless a logged packet
is, have a look here:

        http://www.echogent.com/cgi-bin/fwlog.pl

        Hope these prove useful!

-Scott



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