Logging iptables

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 13:34, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>List,
>
>I am working on some iptables nat forwarding logic and need to be able
>to log failures into my /var/log/message file in a RH 8.0 system.  I am
>using a FC4 system for a gateway firewall and iptables seems to log
>error packets there automatically.  Is there a way to do this on RH 8.0
>as well.
>
>Sorry to ask a RH question on this list, but I thought there would be
>someone here that would know.
>
I don't believe the iptables syntax has changed materially since rh7.3's 
version, so you should be able to do that just fine.  Here, I'm even 
using it to redirect bittorrent to a different address, this box.  And 
you can add the LOG directive to almost any of the rules.
>Thanks,
>
>Greg Ennis

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