From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QGEIr-0006eu-Qq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:50:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E42A1C004; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E7E1C004 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBC71B400A for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:48:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.541 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.541 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.058, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id v7PpMHfLY68Y for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BF41B402F for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QGEH5-0002NX-4C for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:48:11 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:48:11 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:48:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <878vv69asl.fsf@newsguy.com> <87k4eod9ax.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110305 Gentoo/2.0.12 SeaMonkey/2.0.12) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8c2f141edf80c9e2f7b834eea9b2c425 Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes: > All good, except then you have to muck around with iptables. I once > knew a bit about that when it first replaced ipchains in linux > distros... thats' been yrs ago, and I've completely forgotten whatever > I may have learned back then. Hello Harry, These links may provide the theoretical information you seek, for logging on an embedded linux device. http://www.netfilter.org/projects/conntrack-tools/index.html http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/ However, this is not a painless path, but one full of reward and fine_grain control of logging information. hth, James