On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 06:12, hamals@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > hello > > I wrote all my firewall rules, and now I would like to log > all packet that will be dropped by my policy rule.. > > ..how can I do it? > > what kind of rules do I need?..and where have I to write > them? > > thanks if you're trying to catch the packets that will be dropped by the chain policy, the last rule in that chain should be the log rule. for example: iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "FW DROP IN: " see: man iptables or iptables -j LOG -h for all the available options for the LOG target. -j -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>