Good day, Piers, On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 13 December 2003 9:45 am, Piers Finlayson wrote: > > > Is it possible to log a packet's entire contents with iptables, rather than > > just useful stuff from the packet header? > > No. Netfilter has a single fixed logging format which shows onlt the packet > header information, nothing from the body itself. > > > I can run tcpdump/tethereal etc to log the packets I'm interested in, but > > figure it would be much neater if I can just use iptables to do it. > > You might want to have a look at http://gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd to see if > it will help with what you want, but I suspect tcpdump etc will remain your > best bet. It will help. http://www.stearns.org/doc/iptables-ulog.current.html Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The thing that I suspect matters most is that Telsa is more important to me than sitting in front of a computer reading email. - Alan Cox -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@xxxxxxxxx). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org Linux articles at: http://www.opensourcedigest.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------
