Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:15:14 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A cool IPF firewall trick Message-ID: <200209260015.BAA16096@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: BSD Freak's message of Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:56:26 %2B1000
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> I run several FreeBSD/IPF based firewalls. I would really like to get > some sort of basic visual representation as to what the firewall is > doing without actually logging in and tailing logs. My idea is to have > the HDD LED (red) light up when IPF blocks packets with an ipf block > rule and the power LED (green) light up when traffic is passed with an > ipf pass rule. You could have rules to send the packets to divert sockets (as is done for NAT), and write a program to respond to them. See divert(4) and natd(8). It would be easier to use the keyboard leds (KDSETLED ioctl) than the disk and power leds, I think. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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