[Q] IPtables, Port numbers.....

Felix Karpfen felixk at webone.com.au
Sat Jun 8 11:00:30 EST 2002


Brett Worth wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
> 
> > I have been looking at my firewall logs and was wondering what the best way
> > was to trace what had actually caused the entry. 
> 
> The tool I would use is lsof.  e.g. lsof -i TCP to see who owns TCP
> listeners.

That is the tool for experts who know what they are doing.

Amateurs (like me) have to make do with fwlogwatch:

http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/fwlogwatch/  

A sample output is attached (I am using IPchains; but it also works with
IPtables).

Felix Karpfen
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