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Subject: Re: Logging packets dropped by IPFW
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Micheal Patterson wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Kientzle" <kientzle@acm.org>
> Subject: Logging packets dropped by IPFW
> 
>>Is there any way to generate log information
>>about the packets dropped by IPFW?  The 'log'
>>modifier doesn't seem to do anything ...

> options         IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE      #enable logging to syslogd(8)
> options                IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100    #limit verbosity

Thanks, Micheal.  The manpage didn't
mention that logging was a compile-time
option; I'm recompiling now...

Tim