ipmon-like tool for ipfw

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Jun 16 14:14:28 UTC 2009


In the last episode (Jun 16), oxy said:
> I've being searching but found no direct way to monitor indivitually
> logged entries of ipfw in real time.  Something like ipmon from ipf.
> From the ipfw --option command i get only summaries.
> 
> How do i get real time logs on my screen?

If you set the sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1, then any ipfw rule with the
"log" flag on it will get logged via syslog to /var/log/security.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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