Re: Messages from my firewall
Thanks Florian, that was a huge help. The messages
have disappeared and I can get some work done.
Super help!!
--- Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>
wrote:
> Clyde Wilson wrote:
> > I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r1 with Firestarter as my
> > firewall and I am on DSL. The firewall works
> great
> > but I am receiving messages every minute or two
> with
> > the following format:
> >
> > Inbound IN=eth0 OUT=
> > MAC=00:0f:b5:46:4f:5a:00:0b:23:ca:68:ec:08:00
> > SRC=4.79.142.206 DST=71.129.207.113 LEN=28
> TOS=0x00
> > PREC=0x00 TTL=113 ID=32768 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=8
> CODE=0
> > ID=0 SEQ=0
>
> [...]
>
> > These messages appear on my virtual terminals,
> whether
> > I am logged on or not. Any way to get rid of
> them.
>
> This behavior can be controlled via the "printk"
> parameter of the
> kernel. Try the command (as root)
>
> echo "4 4 1 7" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
>
> If you like this setting you can make it permanent
> over reboots by
> uncommenting the following line in /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> kernel/printk = 4 4 1 7
>
> More information about kernel parameters can be
> found in the file
> Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt which is part of the
> kernel sources and
> the kernel documentation packages (e.g
> linux-doc-2.6.15). I have
> appended the part pertaining to printk below.
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
>
==============================================================
> ==== excerpt from Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
> follows ====
>
==============================================================
>
> printk:
>
> The four values in printk denote: console_loglevel,
> default_message_loglevel, minimum_console_loglevel
> and
> default_console_loglevel respectively.
>
> These values influence printk() behavior when
> printing or
> logging error messages. See 'man 2 syslog' for more
> info on
> the different loglevels.
>
> - console_loglevel: messages with a higher priority
> than
> this will be printed to the console
> - default_message_level: messages without an
> explicit priority
> will be printed with this priority
> - minimum_console_loglevel: minimum (highest) value
> to which
> console_loglevel can be set
> - default_console_loglevel: default value for
> console_loglevel
>
>
==============================================================
>
> printk_ratelimit:
>
> Some warning messages are rate limited.
> printk_ratelimit specifies
> the minimum length of time between these messages
> (in jiffies), by
> default we allow one every 5 seconds.
>
> A value of 0 will disable rate limiting.
>
>
==============================================================
>
> printk_ratelimit_burst:
>
> While long term we enforce one message per
> printk_ratelimit
> seconds, we do allow a burst of messages to pass
> through.
> printk_ratelimit_burst specifies the number of
> messages we can
> send before ratelimiting kicks in.
>
>
==============================================================
>
>
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