Probably want to be carefull with our termnology ... Chris has called our
attention to the fact that most pages browsed at the user level (e.g.,
click a link) consist of many individual URL GET requests. Typical for
sites today such as CNN is ~100 objects retrieved for one page. There is
no way for a firewall to indentify those URLs with certainty as being
associated with a single page request and from a security management
perspective I wouldn't want them to be.

I think Eric's observation is that each of those ~URL GETs expands into
10-50 log events ... but this is just a guess ... hence using precise
termnology would help focus the question.

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Chris Green wrote:

> Why would you not want every single GET to be logged?  That's the entire
> point of logging HTTP traffic.
>
> Eric Appelboom wrote:
> > This is "almost" as bad as not being able to disable (collate) the
> > logging and event for every single HTTP GET.
> > One user browsing one url results in 10-50 log events.
> >
> > Regards
> > Eric
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roger Cornelius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 13 October 2006 08:40 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: Roger Cornelius
> > Subject: [gb-users] Excessive GB-Ware logging
> >
> > We're using GB-Ware 4.0.2 with remote logging turned on.  Each time the
> > firewall emails an alarm, it generates three syslog messages to report
> > the status:
> >
> > Oct 13 14:14:13 gbox id=firewall time="2006-10-13 18:14:13"
> > fw="12100192" pri=6 msg="alarm: Connecting to email server"
> > dst=192.168.1.1 dstport=25
> >
> > Oct 13 14:14:13 gbox id=firewall time="2006-10-13 18:14:13"
> > fw="12100192" pri=5 msg="alarm: Connected to email server successfully"
> > src=192.168.1.100 srcport=1170 dst=192.168.1.1 dstport=25
> >
> > Oct 13 14:14:34 gbox id=firewall time="2006-10-13 18:14:34"
> > fw="12100192" pri=5 msg="alarm: Email alarms successfully sent"
> > dst=192.168.1.1 dstport=25
> >
> > Is there a way to turn these messages off?
> > --
> > Roger Cornelius            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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