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Re: [suse-security] How to NOT log a packet
  • From: "S.G. Zijl" <sgzijl@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:58:26 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006051639450.1001-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hello Frank,

If you are connected to the internet with a 3com networkcard shipped
with your @Home connection, you are very lucky, because there's a patch
available in the newsgroup athome.nl.linux which cancle broadcast traffic
on your networkcard. Believe it or not: you won't see any broadcast
traffic anymore.

That's the only solution I found so far.

So until @home manages to stop the broadcasts from this individual I
like not to log these packets. I guess it starts something like

Cable Internet is a shared medium, not a point to point connection like
internet by modem/isdn/etc. @Home won't stop broadcasters.

A solution for your firewall, change

IPCHAINS -F input -l

to

IPCHAINS -F input

It stops logging incoming traffic what means you can turn on your
syslogd again.

Greetz, Siert


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