ipfw console messages

Norm Vilmer norm at etherealconsulting.com
Thu Sep 30 10:09:51 PDT 2004


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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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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



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