On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Kory Krofft wrote:

> I am receiving a large number of hits in my log files from poorly
> configured machines that share my Road Runner segment. I have read the 
> Shorewall documentation and it seems that to stop logging of attempted 
> connections to ports 67 & 68 I would add this to the shorewall rules
> file:
> 
>   drop net fw tcp 67,68
> 
> By not following the "drop" with a log level it should not log the
> attempts.
> 
> Am I coorect in this understanding?

Mostly.

a) "drop" _must_ be capitalized: "DROP"

b) if there are rules earlier in the rule base that are triggered by these
packets then they take precedence... including any logging they
specify.  "earlier" in particular may include rfc1918 rejection.

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