Firestarter dumping blocked events to console

[Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>]

Hi there,

I installed firestarter on Debian Etch. From my understanding it is pretty much a front end to the ipstarter firewall. Everything has been going great except for one minor annoyance...

Every time I connect to the campus network I get bombarded with broadcast SMB packets...fro my understanding, addresses of printers and shared drives...iTunes maybe?

Anyways, as soon as the laptop boots..i see all the dmesgs and everything is fine...when the iptables starts ... it starts dumping everything to the console. Thus, I don't know when start up has completed and the login prompt has been displayed (I don't use an X login manager). I just blindly type my username and password and hope that it works.

So is there anyway to redirect the output of the blocked connections for iptables?

Here is the tail of dmesg by the way...

Inbound IN=eth2 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx SRC=130.166.175.175 DST=130.166.175.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=27327 PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58 
Inbound IN=eth2 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx SRC=130.166.173.13 DST=130.166.175.255 LEN=229 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=40118 PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=209 

And there are hundreds of these lines...I replaced all the destination mac addresses with XX values...

Thanks,
Amit