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From: Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz@optonline.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Chain Policy DROP versus ACCEPT and logging
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:00:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1065967220.5801.10.camel@tarkus> (raw)

I have seen many setups where the default CHAIN Policy is to accept
packets by default versus dropping them. 
From my perspective a firewall should implicitly deny everything, hence 
INPUT and FORWARD should be DROP. 
Then rules are put in to allow what you want. 
But, one seems to lose some logging capabilities with such a setup.
Is their a way to log the default INPUT and FORWARD policies for dropped
packets with them set to DROP as opposed to having them set to ACCEPT
and putting in logs for any deny rules.

Thanks,
Ted




             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-12 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-12 14:00 Ted Kaczmarek [this message]
2003-10-12 15:06 ` Chain Policy DROP versus ACCEPT and logging Joel Newkirk
2003-10-12 15:12 ` Cedric Blancher
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-13 15:54 bmcdowell
2003-10-14  1:01 ` Ted Kaczmarek
2003-10-14  1:29   ` Jeffrey Laramie

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