Michael,
When the firewall rules are implemented the command would look something
like:
ipchains -I input -s bla.bla.bla.bla -d buh.buh.buh.buh -l <---- The -l
indicates to log the packets to /var/log/messages. Remove the -l and the
denied packets will no longer be logged.
Firewall logging for me is always tricky - it's nice to have a log of
packets denied, but at the same time it can make /var/log/messages
unreadibly due to the large amount of packet logs. There are several tools
out there that will sort all the packet rules to say, /var/log/firewall -
That might be an alternative.
Cheers,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Jung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 1:49 PM
To: Peter Green
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masses of protocol messages in the logs
Hello Peter, thanks for your response.
Its from two other WinNT4 maschines from another University group who does
not have an e-smith or firewall and who is not able to stop the services ;-)
> Someone (probably your ISP) is trying to speak RIP to your box. You can
> probably just either allow the connection (which will be dropped,
> since you
> aren't running a RIP daemon, right?) or turn off logging (which
> is what I've
> done on one of my boxen).
I had a look in syslog.conf but not sure if this is the right place to
disable logging?
Michael Jung
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