Re: transparent bridge troubles?

["mdpeters" <michael.peters@lazarusalliance.com>]

I only get the two entries and that is it? Should I not see many many lines 
showing everything I try to put through the bridge?

Does this indicate that the Snort-inline is broken in that QUEUE userspace 
or could this be something wrong with another component of this whole thing?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Opperisano" <opie@817west.com>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: transparent bridge troubles?


> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:55:58PM -0500, mdpeters wrote:
>> OK. This is what I have loaded now.
>>
>> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -P FORWARD DROP
>> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-prefix
>> /var/iptablequeue/pre_queue
>> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --syn -m state --state NEW -j
>> QUEUE
>> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state
>> RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j QUEUE
>> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p udp -j QUEUE
>> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p icmp -j QUEUE
>> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-prefix
>> /var/iptablequeue/post_queue
>>
>> I should see some sort of log file in /var/iptablequeue/post_queue or
>> /var/iptablequeue/pre_queue now? Should I try sending packets through the
>> bridge to generate something?
>
> uh--no.  those rules might not even load.  "--log-prefix" specifies a
> string to prefix the log entries in your syslog files.  my rules were
> literal:
>
> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-prefix "PRE QUEUE: "
>
> ...
>
> /usr/local/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-prefix "POST QUEUE: "
>
> so the entries in /var/log/messages will have the strings "PRE QUEUE: "
> and "POST QUEUE: " in them for identification purposes.
>
> -j
>
> --
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>
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