Here is a link to a pretty good article on iptables: <http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=169573> It has some good info on logging and limiting it. It helped me quite a bit. Lloyd On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:01, menonrr@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hello Mark, > > Thanks for the advice. > > But now I have a new problem. The syslog logs millions of such > entries: > > Source and Destination to 127.0.0.1 > > Oct 5 10:35:17 nessusClient kernel: INPUT packets:IN=lo OUT= > MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:08:00 SRC=127.0.0.1 > DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=30292 DF > PROTO=TCP SPT=631 DPT=34189 WINDOW=32754 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 > > Source = various ; Destination to 255.255.255.0 > > Oct 5 10:51:09 nessusClient kernel: INPUT eth1 Ext:IN=eth1 > OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:08:74:ab:0d:27:08:00 > SRC=134.126.21.83 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=68 TOS=0x00 > PREC=0x00 TTL=128 ID=39383 PROTO=UDP SPT=1226 DPT=7100 LEN=48 > > Can you advise how to make the log less cumbersome > (--log-level?) and not log unnecesary information like traffic > from 127.0.0.1 or broadcasts? > > I am very thankful. > > Menon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
