Re: ipchains log
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:47:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Thus spake Rebecca Dridan:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm just setting up a masquerading firewall and I'm getting some log messages
> > I don't completely understand like the follwing:
> >
> > pluto kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 210.86.82.93:3 xx.xx.xx.xx:3
> > .....
> >
> > I've found out that that's an ICMP packet, with type Desination Unreadable and
> > code Port Unreachable, but I'm not sure what this means. Is it important, and
> > is there any way of stopping it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Bec
> Try this site:
> http://logi.cc/linux/NetfilterLogAnalyzer.php3
> You can just plug in the log line and it will analyze it for you.
Unfortunately it doesn't tell me what the analysis means. That's where I got
the type and code information from but I still don't know the packets purpose,
or whether I can just keep DENYing them.
Bec
> Neat!
> Steve
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