On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:11:08AM +0100, caroline kenny wrote: > > > Hello users, > > I am using the iptables-1.2.5 package and I was wondering if anyone out > there can tell me if it is possible to perform some action if a firewall > rule is hit. > For example, I have a rule set up to deny sending traffic from my box to a > certain destination. If I attempt to send traffic to this destination, the > rule will drop the traffic. But i was wondering is there any way a script > can be run when this trffic is rejected...I havent seen this done anywhere > and I really dont think that its possible but I said that I would just > check it out.
You can use ulog to send the packet to the user space where you can do anything including launching a script based on a certain packet. You also can use the LOG functionality and scan the log file and trigger a script upon the detection of a certain log entry... Ramin > > Thanks for the help! > Caroline > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com >
