From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 2:51:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EE337B400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 02:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020222105146.JSWM2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:51:46 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1MApkN84130; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 02:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 02:51:46 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: Simon J Mudd , FBSDQ Subject: Re: ipfw and getting the interface logged Message-ID: <20020222025145.L48401@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:22PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:30:22PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > This messages are being issued by the log_in_vain="YES" > option in rc.conf. These are connection attempts by somebody > who is trying to break into your system and got stopped before > your IPFW firewall even knows about it. That is not true. If something is logged by log_in_vain, it must have passed ipfw(8). ipfw(8) comes first. log_in_vain is triggered when the packets are being processed at the transport layer. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message