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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:37:24 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
To:        Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: doc/14595: ipfw log option 
Message-ID:  <13433.942543444@monkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:45:35 -0500. <Pine.OSF.4.02.9911111938050.20703-100000@vtopus.cs.vt.edu> 

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In message <Pine.OSF.4.02.9911111938050.20703-100000@vtopus.cs.vt.edu>, you wro
te:

>ipfw(8) includes the following description of the log option:
>
>-----
>     If the kernel was compiled with IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE, then when a
>packet matches a rule with the log keyword a message will be printed on
>the console.  If the kernel was compiled with the IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT
>option, then logging will cease after the number of packets specified by
>the option are received for that particular chain entry.  Logging may then
>be re-enabled by clearing the packet counter for that entry.
>
>	Console logging and the log limit are adjustable dynamically
>through the sysctl(8) interface.
>-----
>
>The logs are written to the console and (I think) also generate LOG_KERN
>facility messages in syslog.  That part could be cleared up (after someone
>confirms that I'm right I guess), but the rest seems reasonably clear.
>Was there something that you specifically wanted added to the
>documentation?


No, and I retract my PR on this topic.


(I just didn't see the passage you quoted above.  I only looked for info
on the `log' option in the list of other options, e.g. `frag', `in', `out',
etc.  It wasn't there, so that's how I missed it.  Sorry.  My bad.)


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