Smoothwall logs

[Rasjid Wilcox]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Hawkins" <matthew at topic.com.au>
To: "CLUG" <linux at samba.org>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: Smoothwall logs


> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> > Any suggestions on how to stop these being logged?  And/or should I be
allowing
> > them through?
>
> There's not much point letting them through unless you're using routed
> internally to keep each system's routing tables updated.
>
> As for stopping them being logged, perhaps change the firewall rules to
> silently drop the packets (eg, add a new rule matching udp on port 520
> and drop it without logging)
>

So would the following entry before the end of the input chain (which does the
logging) do the trick?

ipchains -A input -i $RED_DEV -p udp --destination-port 520 -j DENY

Rasjid.