Interpreting Logs

Doug Hardie bc979 at lafn.org
Mon Jul 12 01:49:30 UTC 2010


On 11 July 2010, at 02:17, Remko Lodder wrote:

> 
> On Jul 11, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
>> I have not been able to find any real information on the contents of the logs.  My logs show a number of interesting entries that I just can't find any information to explain.  For example:
>> 
>> loose state match
>> 
>> BAD ICMP 11:0
>> 
>> state reuse
>> 
>> State failure on:   2 3   |   6
>> 
>> State failure on: 1       | 5  
>> 
>> BAD state
>> 
>> How do you interpret these?  Is there anything written on the log contents?
> 
> 
> How do you get these messages? I have never seen them on my machines at all, so you must have been setting pfctl -x debug or something?

I believe I used pfctl -x m although it might have been u.


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