pflog

Andy Greenwood greenwood.andy at gmail.com
Mon May 22 07:15:45 PDT 2006


This is discussed in the openbsd pf page

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/logging.html#syslog

On 5/22/06, Albert Shih <shih at math.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>  Le 22/05/2006 à 16:59:02+0300, Iantcho Vassilev a écrit
> > On 5/22/06, Albert Shih <shih at math.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> >
> > When you write your rules, you put "log" in them..
> >
> >
> > example:
> > pass in quick log proto tcp from any to any keep state
> >
> >
> > then you have to have pflogd started(pflog_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf).
> >
> > When pflog is started your binary log is lcated on /var/log/pflog
> >
> > you can read it witH:
> > tcpdump -n -t -r /var/log/pflog
> >
> > if you want real time(because pflog is where is written with some delay)
> > tcpdump -n -t -i pflog0
>
> Thanks. But I known this thing. The problem is with this method the log is
> first write on the hard-disk. And I don't want do that (well I don't
> like...)
>
> I prefer the pflogd directly log to a central server. It's possible ?
>
> Regards.
>
>
> --
> Albert SHIH
> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
> 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10
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> Mon May 22 16:08:02 CEST 2006
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