Tom Eastep wrote:
> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-12-10 at 07:41 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>>> The 'Drop' chain is generated by the Drop action which gets called because 
>>> it is
>>> the default action for DROP policies
>>> (http://www.shorewall.net/Actions.html#id2500209).
>> Indeed.
>>
>>> In other words, it gets
>>> called just before a DROP policy is enforced.
>> Right.
>>
>>> So waiting until then to do MAC
>>> filtration wouldn't work because traffic from banned MAC addresses might 
>>> have
>>> already been allowed by ACCEPT, DNAT, or REDIRECT rules.
>> Agreed.
>>
>> INPUT->eth0_in->eth0_mac
>>
>>> I'll consider this an enhancement request to allow log filtration of 
>>> messages
>>> generated by maclist and try to get something into 3.3.
>> How about jumping to the Drop table right before the
>>
>> LOG  all  --  *  *  0.0.0.0/0  0.0.0.0/0  LOG flags 0 level 6 prefix 
>> `Shorewall:eth0_mac:REJECT:'
> 
> A) There is no guarantee that there will even be a Drop chain.
> B) There is NEVER a Drop chain in the mangle table.
> 
> So until I release a solution, you will have to use the start file.

I assume that you are seeing a log of messages in your log -- hence your
request. Is the traffic mostly broadcasts? Or is there unicast traffic as well?
I'm wondering if I just suppressed logging of broadcast/multicast if that would
be enough.

-Tom
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