SuSE Firewall: Disabling Kernel Security Options
When I activated SuSEfirewall the kernel security option in firewall.rc.config was set to yes (it was the default). Since then I have had things like logging of 'martians' and other stuff appear in logs. As I have (unrelated) problems with my cablemodem access at the moment I want to get rid of this stuff before adding it back to a working system. So I have unloaded the firewall rules and de-activated SuSEfirewall. I have run SuSEconfig and rebooted but I find I still get these security options appearing. I'm no longer running any kind of firewall at all so why am I still getting these martian messages? Has it patched the kernel somehow? _________________________________________________________ Tim Harrell
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Harrell, Tim wrote:
I'm no longer running any kind of firewall at all so why am I still getting these martian messages? Has it patched the kernel somehow?
No, it's a sysctl you can change at any time without needing to rebuild kernel. cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/log_martians and you'll get some '1's if its enabled. echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/log_martians and the messages will be supressed. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.suse.de/~davej | SuSE Labs
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