From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 13:57:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED9116A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:57:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from advmail.lsn.net (advmail.lsn.net [66.90.138.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B77943D53 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:57:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norm@etherealconsulting.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (24-155-40-125.ip.grandenetworks.net [24.155.40.125]) by advmail.lsn.net (8.12.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i91DvT0A019815; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 08:57:32 -0500 Message-ID: <415D6247.5080507@etherealconsulting.com> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:57:27 -0500 From: Norm Vilmer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subhro References: <415C2FA7.6010408@etherealconsulting.com> <415C3DD4.3020202@etherealconsulting.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira Milter 1.0.6; VAE 6.27.0.12; VDF 6.27.0.83 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw console messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:57:31 -0000 Subhro wrote: > Could we have a look at the syslof configuration file? > > Regards > S. > > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:09:40 -0500, Norm Vilmer > wrote: > >> >>Norm Vilmer wrote: >> >> >>>I have been running a IPFW firewall on FreeBSD 4.10 for a few weeks >>>now. For some reason a few connection attempts are showing up on the >>>console rather than going to the log file. I can't seem to figure out >>>why. Any ideas? >>> >>>I have tried adding the 'log' key word to every deny statement in my >>>IPFW firewall config file. For the most part all denied packets are >>>logged to /var/log/ipfw.log. But about 3-12 per night are not. These >>>also show up in the security run output email as kernel log messages. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >>More info: my kernel is compiled with these option: >> >>option TCP_DROP_SYNFIN >>option ICMP_BANDLIM >>option IPFIREWALL >>option IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE >>option IPDIVERT >>option RANDOM_IP_ID >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > > I dont think it is a login problem. I made only one change to the syslog.conf file, I added !ipfw *.* /var/log/ipfw.log Ok, I did an experiment. I added ${cmd} add 10 pass TCP from any to ${oif} where oif is my outside/public ip. Then I attempted an FTP connection to my public ip from another machine. This popped up on the console. Connection attempt to TCP :21 from :3079 flags:0x02 Now I get it , the message on the console are connection attempts that get through the firewall but no service is running on the port. need to look at my rules