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From: Athan <netfilter@miggy.org>
Subject: Re: Logging
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:20:56 +0000
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To: Subba Rao <subba9@cablespeed.com>
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:23:10PM -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
> --------------------
> iptables -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_IF -p tcp --destination-port 25 -j LOG \
>                 --log-level 4 --log-prefix "Incoming Mail Traffic "
> iptables -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_IF -p tcp --destination-port 25 -j ACCEPT
> --------------------
>=20
> The default policy is on the INPUT chain is to drop the packets.  How do =
I capture
> what is being dropped?

  iptables -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_IF -j LOG --log-level 4 \
  	--log-prefix "Dropped Incoming "

Remember a LOG target simply LOGs then returns, so it'll still drop
through to the policy after this.

> My goal is to log the inbound traffic and my syslog has the following
> configuration:
>=20
> --------------------
> *.=3Dinfo;*.=3Dnotice;mail.none                     /usr/adm/messages
> *.=3Dalert                                        /usr/adm/messages
> *.=3Dcrit                                         /usr/adm/debug
> mail.*                                          /var/log/mail-log
> kern.*                                          /var/log/messages

   All iptables -j LOG goes to kern.*, so you should see it in your
/var/log/messages.  You could also use --log-level 7 (DEBUG) instead
and:

kern.=3Ddebug			/var/log/iptables

Note you _CAN_ also do --log-level debug to make things clearer.

HTH,

-Ath
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