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Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:39:15 -0500
From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 08/09/14 09:15, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 8/9/2014 10:15 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>
>> Why is there a limit on the # of logged denials by ipfw ?
>
> The limit is there to prevent conditions where syslog would be 
> overwhelmed with hits, as in the case for example of a DoS.  You can 
> change it as discussed in the man pages
>
>
> If net.inet.ip.fw.verbose is set to 1, packets will be logged to 
> syslogd(8) with a LOG_SECURITY facility up to a maximum of logamount 
> packets.  If no logamount is specified, the limit is taken from the 
> sysctl variable net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit.  In both cases, a value 
> of 0 means unlimited logging.
>
> Once the limit is reached, logging can be re-enabled by clearing the 
> logging counter or the packet counter for that entry, see the resetlog 
> command.
>
>     ---Mike
>
>


Hmmmm .... OK, sounds good. I would like a bit more granularity on 
deciding what to log & what to not log. For example, 99% of the time, I 
would drop denials from my LAN, except when I am trying to figure out 
why I can't get NFS working, for example. I'd like to be able to choose 
that when I (re)start ipfw. I am using the default rc.firewall located 
in /etc, BTW. I might like to specify denial-logging by protocol *and* 
port #, rather than just port # .... Is there a way to implement any of 
this ? Thanks & TIA ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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