On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:47:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Rebecca Dridan: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just setting up a masquerading firewall and I'm getting some log > > messages > > I don't completely understand like the follwing: > > > > pluto kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 210.86.82.93:3 > > xx.xx.xx.xx:3 > > ..... > > > > I've found out that that's an ICMP packet, with type Desination Unreadable > > and > > code Port Unreachable, but I'm not sure what this means. Is it important, > > and > > is there any way of stopping it? > > > > Thanks > > > > Bec > Try this site: > http://logi.cc/linux/NetfilterLogAnalyzer.php3 > You can just plug in the log line and it will analyze it for you. Unfortunately it doesn't tell me what the analysis means. That's where I got the type and code information from but I still don't know the packets purpose, or whether I can just keep DENYing them.
Bec > Neat! > Steve > -- > Old timer, n.: > One who remembers when charity was a virtue and not an organization.
