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From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
Subject: Re: how to log dropped packet
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:21:26 -0500
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hamals@infinito.it wrote:
> 
> hello
> 
> I wrote all my firewall rules, and now I would like to log all packet 
> that will be dropped by my policy rule..
> 
> ..how can I do it?
> 
> what kind of rules do I need?..and where have I to write them?

Use the LOG target.

However, if this is your firewall host toward Internet, are you sure you 
want to log *everything* that is dropped?  There are so many worms and 
automatic scanning tools out there that your logs will get *huge* with 
nothing but crap very fast.  This is especially true for Windows 
specific TCP and UDP ports.  Anything that might be interesting will get 
completely lost in all that noise.

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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>    Pollard Banknote Limited
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