From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Gruellich Subject: Re: Logging default drop Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 19:02:59 +0200 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20040408170259.GL10272@home.manuelm.org> References: <200404072134.30328.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> <000a01c41d86$ee20b2c0$0464a8c0@stu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000a01c41d86$ee20b2c0$0464a8c0@stu> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org * Stuart Lamble 8. Apr 04: > Hi All Hello, > iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "IN-DEfault-drop " > > I then tail my messages file and get a LOT of the following.... > > [logged packet] > > The SRC address is ofter different. This is normal. > What does this mean? Congratulation, you catched a ping. For complete description read . And please, don't toppost. HTH, regards, Frank. -- Sigmentation fault